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The fine bay of Portland and nearby Cape Bridgewater were indirectly named by Captain Grant in 1800 on the Brig named Lady Nelson. Grant explored this part of the coast a year or so before Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin. James Grant was receiving his orders from the Duke of Portland and so Governor King in Sydney named the bay Portland after looking at Grant’s maps. Nicholas Baudin, the French explorer also named the area and called it Terra Bonaparte. After Major Thomas Mitchell’s explorations in 1836 his Australia Felix region became known as the Western Districts (of NSW). From 1803 some American whalers established summer whaling camps along Portland Bay but there was no permanent white settlement until Edward Henty arrived here from Launceston in November 1834. His brother Francis arrived to settle in December 1834. Thus began the white settlement of Victoria almost a year before Fawkner and Batman settled on Port Phillip Bay. (John Fawkner and John Batman also moved from Launceston because of the land shortages there with Fawkner settling in August 1835 near Hobson’s Bay and Batman in June 1835 near the Yarra although he personally did not settle until April 1836.)
Edward Henty landed with 13 cattle, 4 bullocks, 5 pigs, 2 turkeys, vines, plants, seeds, and apple and pear trees. Francis arrived with dairy cows and Merino sheep a month later. In 1836 Major Mitchell called in to the Henty’s property where Portland now stands. Henty had already explored inland by then and he had discovered Darlots Creek and Lake Condah. Three of Henty’s pastoral runs were near the later town of Merino. The Hentys also earnt income from whaling but Edward did not even begin any whaling until 1836. Edward built his first house on what is now Bentinck Street. This was swept away when the town was surveyed in 1840 by Charles Tyers the government surveyor. By this time Edward and Francis had been joined by their other brothers Richard and John. It was a Henty son (Richard) who was the first white male born in Victoria and Edward Henty was the first to move inland in Victoria when he moved to near Merino in 1837. But many now assert that the first white settlement (not permanent or farming or pastoral settlement) in Victoria was by William Dutton with his fishery (sealing) and whaling station near Portland in 1833. Dutton had camped here in a temporary house for summer months since 1828. He also had whaling camps on Kangaroo Island. He did not spend all the year at Portland but his whaling camp was a permanent structure. Dutton also had early whaling camps at Port Fairy. When Edward Henty arrived in November 1834 Dutton was already there and assisted Henty to get established. But does this Dutton claim really detract from Edward Henty’s claim to be the first permanent white settler on the land in Victoria?
The Henty brothers had illegally squatted on land and despite having 60 acres under crop, sheep grazing at Merino, two houses in both Portland and at Merino and 53 whites living on the land (46 males including employees and 7 females) Governor Gipps of Sydney was not impressed. The Henty brothers claimed compensation for their development of the land and a grant of some of the land. Thus began many years of legal battles between the government and the Henty brothers. Gipps decided to send Police to Portland to remove Henty from the land but this never happened. In 1843 the government softened and gave a grant of 83 acres at £2 per acre; town acres at £100 per acre; and compensation of £118 for their buildings, including the house which was destroyed to create Bentinck Street. The Henty brothers declined this offer and the dispute continued. Eventually the Henty brothers got legal leases and they purchased freehold land. Merino Downs station is still in the hands of Henty descendants.
Government land in Portland was sold in 1840 with 70 town blocks being purchased immediately and many surrounding “suburban” blocks. Pastoral leases for inland areas were authorised from 1839. By 1842 the town had a temporary Presbyterian, Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist churches, a cemetery, a newspaper, a school house, hotels ( the Commercial Inn, the Portland Hotel, the Portland Inn and the Steam Packet Inn), a jetty and commercial enterprises. Customs duties were levied on the port trade. The main street along the foreshore Bentinck Street was named after the family name of the Dukes of Portland. The Customs House was completed in 1850; the Court House was built 1845; the Catholic Church 1848; the Presbyterian Church 1849; the Botanical Gardens began 1854; the Anglican Church 1856; a tramway to Heywood opened 1860; the Town Hall opened 1865 and a new Wesleyan Church opened 1865. In terms of population Portland grew quickly with around 1,200 residents in 1851 and around 3,000 by 1854. Today Portland has 10,700 residents.
As the major regional port railway lines from the interior were especially important to Portland. The tramway to Heywood opened in 1860 but soon became a railway line. The Portland Railway Company was formed in the town in 1872 and they raised funds for a railway to Hamilton and another to Coleraine. The company folded one year later. But the government built a railway line to Hamilton in 1878 and in 1889 they proposed a railway to the Wimmera - Horsham and Mildura. The first section of the railway from Hamilton to Horsham opened in 1911 to Cavendish and the line only got to Horsham in 1920! Meantime a rail link to Mt Gambier across the border was demanded by the residents of both Portland and Mt Gambier. The SA government opposed the idea and resisted for many years. The rail line was first suggested in 1900 and the Victorian government did a survey for the line in 1901. But it was 1912 before the two states agreed on rail lines crossing the border at Mt Gambier and at Pinnaroo. Work started on the line from Heywood to Mt Gambier in 1914. The line finally opened in October 1917.
Princeland.
Links between Mt Gambier and Portland had always existed. Captain Grant had charted both areas as had Flinders and Baudin. In 1839 Edward Henty tried to establish a sheep run at Mt Gambier but the SA government ordered Henty off the land. They then allowed Evelyn Sturt to become the first landowner near Mt Gambier. Many pastoral runs near the border crossed the border. Robertsons of Struan had land both sides of the border as did the Austens of Penola. In 1862 in response to perceived financial neglect of the Mt Gambier region by the SA government, and the desire for separation from Melbourne in Victoria, the Princeland movement emerged. Edward Henty was behind the formation of the West Victorian Separation league to create a new colony with the capital in Mt Gambier and the main port at Portland. The colony was to be named after Prince Albert (Princeland) and a petition was sent to the Colonial Office and to Queen Victoria. 1,500 signatures were collected but the proposal required the agreement of two states so it languished in London. The movement started with a report in the Portland newspaper on 2 January 1862 followed by another in the Advertiser on 4 January 1862. The new province would have 24 million acres from Victoria and 4 million from SA with a population of 74,000 and an annual revenue income of £330,000. The Geelong newspaper supported the movement but jealousy of Portland was reported as the cause of opposition to the proposal from the residents of Port Fairy. People in Portland argued that of the £300,000 paid in tax and revenue to the government in Melbourne only £100,000 was ever spent in the region and of £36,000 raised in Mt Gambier only £16,000 was ever spent there. Public meetings were held in towns from Penshurst to Penola with Mr R Horne arguing for the proposal and soliciting signatures for the petition. The SA government to give an additional member of parliament to the Mt Gambier district and proposed the upgrading of roads and the building of a courthouse, police station and Post Office in Port MacDonnell and elsewhere. The Border Watch newspaper in Mt Gambier opposed the idea of Princeland but suggested the colonies ought to have a federal parliament and a union a bit like the American Union which was at that time fighting a Civil War over secession! The SA parliament passed a motion opposing secession of Mt Gambier in May 1862. By October English newspapers were reporting no widespread support of the secession movement in SA and Vic and so it was unlikely that Westminster and the Queen would consider a petition which was not widely supported by the local people or the state governments. Thus the Princeland secession movement died in October 1862 but the term was used in the region for the next twenty years.
Location: The Bill of Portland, Dorset, England, UK
Date of Photograph: pm 1 April 1994
OS Grid Reference: SY677683
Co-ordinates: 50:30:51N 2:27:23W
Elevation: 43 meters
In former times Weymouth was an important port, one of the busiest in England. Its ancient function is possibly best remembered for the facts that The Black Death made its British landfall there on 25th June 1348, and that in February 1805 William Wordsworth’s brother John, Captain of “The Earl of Abergavenny”, an East Indiaman, lost his life when his ship foundered in Weymouth Bay.
Weymouth is in the lee of Portland Bill, a windswept limestone promontory that juts miles into the Channel between England and France.
A fierce tidal current called The Portland Race arises from the opposition of tides confined between Portland Bill and The Shambles sandbank some three miles to the South-East.
The function of the light is to guide traffic entering Portland and Weymouth; mark the bank with a red sector; and act as a waymark for Channel through-shipping.
In 1669 Sir John Clayton took an abortive patent to erect a light at the Bill, but it was not until 26th May 1716 that the people of Weymouth were successful in petitioning Trinity House to erect a light. Two coal-fired lights were set up but very ill-run by the lessees. After sixty-one years the lease reverted to Trinity House.
In 1789, the brethren commissioned William Johns of Weymouth to demolish one of the existing pillars and replace it with another tower. In that year Argand lamps were installed, Portland being the first light in England so equipped. There were two banks of seven oil-fired Argand lamps with highly-polished reflectors. Further improvements were made shortly after when Thomas Rogers installed a separate low light with a catoptric system housing six Argand lamps to improve visibility at sea.
In 1869, the high and low lights were replaced with the current single tower. The low lighthouse survives as a bird observatory.
The present optic is arranged to transition from one flash to four between bearings 221° and 224°; and from four flashes to one between 117° and 141°. The lamp is an electric 1 Kw Mbi with a four-panel first-order catadioptric fixed lens, giving a white group flashing four times every twenty seconds. The power is 635,000 candela. The tower is sited 43 meters above Mean High Water, and has a height of 41 meters: The effective elevation of the lantern is therefore 84 meters yielding a visible range of about twenty-five nautical miles. There is an obsolete fog signal capable of blasting for three and a half seconds every thirty seconds.
The facility was demanned on 18th March 1996. Monitoring and control is now managed remotely from The Trinity House Operations Control Centre in Harwich.
Portland Building - Portland Municipal Services Building
Architects: Michael Graves,
Emery Roth & Sons
Built: 1982
Location: Portland, OR
U.S. National Register of Historic Places since October 25, 2011
Architectural style: Post-modernism
Red Crane is a crane on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is situated on the cliff edge at Portland's southerly point, the promontory Portland Bill. The crane is part of the now-disused Portland Bill stone loading quay, which has become a scheduled monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, because it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance.
The original wooden Red Crane in 1962.
The area of Portland Bill had been quarried from the 19th-century or earlier, and continued until the early 20th-century. During its commercial years, stone shipping quays were created to transport the stone off the island. The stone shipping quay at Red Crane was Portland Bill's prime quay.
The hand-operated wooden crane known locally as Red Crane was originally designed for the same purpose, and after quarrying ceased in the area at the into the 20th century, Red Crane was mainly used to lower fisherman and their boats into the sea. The crane was later replaced by a steel crane, which has remained standing ever since. It continues to be used by fishermen, whilst the site has also become a popular spot for memorial plaques to loved ones who had an affection of the spot.
A similar crane, also steel, is the Broad Ope Crane (also known as Bob's Crane), and this one is located further east of Portland Bill, near Cave Hole.An original wooden crane exists further along the east of the island, named Sandholes Crane.
Portland
Dranouter Festival 2018
3-AUG-2018
Jente Pironet Vocals & Guitar
Sarah Pepels Vocals and Keyboartd
Gill Princen Keyboards
Arno De Bock Drums
© Patrick Van Vlerken 2018
Icicles forming on a scrub growing between bricks during freezing rain at Thompson's Point in Portland, Maine
One of TriMet's Gomaco-built replica heritage streetcars operating on the Portland Streetcar back in 2003. Two of these Gomaco "Council Crest" replica cars recently moved to St. Louis for a new trolley operation being built there. The other two are now on the Willamette Shore Trolley operating out of Lake Oswego.
Note the crossing diamond in the foreground- when the first segment of the Portland Streetcar was constructed, the freight spur that crossed here (although unused) had not yet been abandoned, necessitating that a crossing be included. The diamond was removed after a few years.
Portland, OR felt a lot like a big sister to my hometown of Burlington, VT. Both my wife and I instantly felt at home in this great city and a quick walk brought us to the obligatory stops of Stumptown Coffee and Voodoo Donuts.
Earl William Graves, a U.S. Navy commander and a systems analyst who worked through the rise of the computer age, died suddenly from an aneurysm on Oct. 17, 2019. He was 92.
Earl was born in Hoquiam, Wash., on July 28, 1927, to Henry and Laura Graves. He grew up during the Great Depression in Southern California and later the Puget Sound area. His father sent him and his sister, Katherine, to Livingston, Mont., after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Earl returned six months later and attended high school in Bremerton and later at South Kitsap High in Port Orchard.
He enlisted in the U.S. Navy near the end of World War II and served in Japan during the U.S. occupation. He married Lola Olson, a Bremerton high classmate, and built a career in the Navy. He climbed the ranks to become the youngest chief in the Navy and eventually a lieutenant commander. He worked in supplies and said one of his most rewarding projects was leading the dramatic transformation of substandard food services on the USS Fulton -- a 600-crew submarine tender based in New London, Ct. -- into a first-rate food program.
Earl retired from the Navy in 1970 and became a systems analyst for social service systems in Utah and Colorado. He later worked for David Barbee, an education consultant who became a lifelong friend. David called Earl “the best systems person I ever met.” Their company designed training programs for many states, the federal government and Saudi Arabia.
Earl spent his early retirement years in Olympia, where, after multiple marriages, he met Lucille Nelson in 1995. They moved to California’s Bay Area six years ago and settled in the Acacia Creek retirement complex in Union City.
Driven by his sharp mind and extraordinary curiosity, Earl explored most of the world’s continents, read widely and pursued broad interests, including sports, politics, jazz and Christianity’s early history. He analyzed education systems in Saudi Arabia, hosted a television show in Adak, Alaska; wrote software for the Orofino Police Department in Idaho, and fished commercially for salmon in Alaska. He boxed in the Navy, raced jalopy cars, played clarinet in a jazz band, raised tropical fish, hunted ducks, and enjoyed cooking. He cruised the Panama Canal, toured Kenya on a safari and called New Zealand one of his favorite countries.
He was preceded in death in 1996 by his first wife, Lola Olson Raab, and is survived by their four children: Jack Graves, Vancouver, Wash.; Bill Graves, Beaverton, Ore.; Douglas Graves, Caldwell, Idaho; and Jill Cain, Belfair, Wash. In addition, he is survived by children Eric Graves of Petaling Jaya Selangor, Malaysia; Leslie McCarthy of Geneva, Ill.; and Wayne Rothwell of Pembroke Mass.; 18 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren. His wife Lucille of Union City also survives him.
Earl’s ashes were scattered at sea. A Celebration of Life will be 2 p.m., Nov. 23, at Acacia Creek, 34400A Mission Blvd., Union City, Calif.
Next, pictures from a trip to the Left Coast. The skyline of Portland, OR. Sorry, no photos from Intel from Hillsboro, which was the reason for coming to this almost Nordic-style orderly, thoroughly pleasant, and clean town.
This is as far as I got with the new camera, too much sea spray to risk it !
Portland Bill 31.12.2015
Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine as the sun just clears the horizon to cast a brilliant light of purple, pink and yellow hues over a snow covered winter landscape.
Maine Lighthouse Photograph by Joann Vitali