Cumberland County, Maine
Abyssinian Meeting House
Academy Building
Andrews, Lt. Robert, House
Androscoggin Swinging Bridge
Art Gallery
Auburn-Harpswell Association Historic District
Babb's Bridge
Back Cove
BAGHEERA (schooner)
Bailey Island Cobwork Bridge
Bailey Island Library Hall
Battery Steele
Baxter House
Baxter Summer Home
Beckett's Castle
Blanchard, Capt. S. C., House
Boody, Henry, House
Brown, C. A., Cottage
Brown, Harrison B., House
Brown, J. B., Memorial Block
Brunswick Commercial Historic District
Burnell Tavern
Butler, A. B., House
Camp Hammond
Caswell Public Library (Former)
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Central Parish Church
Chapman, Leonard Bond, House
Chestnut Street Methodist Church
Children's Hospital
Clapp, Charles Q., Block
Clapp, Charles Q., House
Cleaveland, Parker, House
Cleaves, Benjamin, House
Clifford, Nathan, School
Cousins Island Chapel
Crescent Lodge
Crystal Spring Farm
Cumberland and Oxford Canal
Cumberland Mills Historic District
Davis, Dalton Holmes, Memorial Library
Deering Estate Barn
Deering Oaks
Deering Street Historic District
Deertrees Theatre
Dow, Gen. Neal, House
Dry Mills School
Dunlap, John, House
Dunning, Deacon Andrew, House
Dunstan Methodist Episcopal Church
Dyer, Isaac E., Estate
Dyer, Nathaniel, House
Dyer-Hutchinson Farm
Dyke Mountain Annex
Eagle Island
East Harpswell Free Will Baptist Church
East Raymond Union Chapel
Eastern Cemetery
Eastern Promenade
Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial
Engine Company Number Nine Firehouse
Everett Chambers
Evergreen Cemetery
Falmouth High School
Falmouth House
Farnsworth House
Federal Street Historic District
Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center
First Parish Church
First Parish Church
First Parish Congregational Church
First Parish Meetinghouse
Fitch's General Store and House
Fort Gorges
Fort McKinley Historic District
Freeman Farm Historic District
Freeport Main Street Historic District
Friends Meetinghouse
Goold House
Gorham Campus Historic District
Gorham Historic District
Gothic House, The
Grand Trunk Railroad Station
Great Chebeague Golf Club
Great Falls Historic District
Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
Greene Cottage
Greenough, Byron, Block
Griffin House
Halfway Rock Light Station
Hall's Tavern
Hamblen Block
Hamblen Development Historic District
Hanson, Asa, Block
Harpswell Meetinghouse
Harraseeket Historic District
Harris, Nathan, House
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Boyhood Home
Homer, Winslow, Studio
How Houses
How, Daniel, House
Hunniwell, Richard, House
Ingraham, Joseph Holt, House
Intervale Farm
Kellogg, Elijah, Church
Kellogg, Elijah, House
Lakeside Grange #63
Lancaster Block
Leighton, Adam P., House
Lightship No. 112, NANTUCKET
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Street Historic District
Little Mark Island Monument
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Monument
Longfellow, Stephen, House
Maine Central Railroad General Office Building
Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary
Maine Historical Society
Maine Publicity Bureau Building
Mallett Hall
Mallett, E. B., Office Building
Manning, Richard, House
Manor House
Maplewood Farm
Marine Hospital
Mariner's Church
Marrett, Daniel, House
Masonic Temple
Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College
McLellan House
McLellan-Sweat Mansion
Mechanics' Hall
Merriconeag Grange No. 425
Merriconegan Farm
Merrill, Capt. Reuben, House
Merrill, Capt. Reuel and Lucy, House
Minott, William, House
Mitchell House
Morse-Libby Mansion
New Gloucester Historic District
North School
North Yarmouth Academy
North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meetinghouse
Norton House Historic District
Paine Neighborhood Historic District
Park Street Row
Payson House at Thornhurst
Peabody-Fitch House
Pennell Institute
Pennellville Historic District
Perley, Sam, Farm
Perry, William F., House
Pettengill House and Farm
Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building
Portland Breakwater Light
Portland City Hall
Portland City Hospital
Portland Club
Portland Headlight
Portland High School
Portland Observatory
Portland Packing Company Factory
Portland Railroad Company Substation
Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Portland Waterfront
Portland Waterfront (Boundary Increase)
Portland Waterfront Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Pote, Capt. Greenfield, House
Pownal Cattle Pound
Prince, Cushing and Hannah, House
Proprietors Meeting House and Parish House
Purington, Elisha, House
Rackleff Building
Ram Island Ledge Light Station
Randall, Jacob, House
Reed, Thomas Brackett, House
Richardson House
Russwurm, John B., House
Ryefield Bridge
Sagamore Village Historic District
Scarborough High School
Schlotterbeck and Foss Building
Scribner Homestead
Seavey-Robinson House
Shaker Village
Skelton, Thomas, House
Smith, F.O.J., Tomb
Smith, Parson, House
Songo Lock
South Bridgton Congregational Church
South Street Historic District
Southgate Farm
Sparrow House
Spring Point Ledge Light Station
Spring Street Historic District (Additional Documentation)
Spurwink Congregational Church
St. Hyacinth School and Convent
St. Joseph's Academy and Convent
St. Lawrence Church
St. Paul's Church and Rectory
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Standish Corner Historic District
State Reform School Historic District
Steep Falls Library
Stevens, John Calvin, House
Stimson Memorial Hall
Stone House
Stover, Capt. Johnson H. Jr., House
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, House
Stroudwater Historic District
Tarr-Eaton House
Tate House
Thomas B. Reed School
Thompson Block
Tracy-Causer Block
Two Lights
U.S. Courthouse
U.S. Customhouse
Union Church
Union Church
Union Hotel
Universalist Meeting House
US Post Office-Portland Main
Vallee Family House
Valley Lodge
Wadsworth-Longfellow House
Wales and Hamblen Store
Walker Memorial Hall
Walker Memorial Library
Walking Man Sign
Warren Block
Watkins House and Cabins
Webb, John and Maria, House
Westbrook College Historic District
Westbrook High School
Western Promenade
Western Promenade Historic District
Whittier Field Athletic Complex
Williston-West Church and Parish House
Winn Road School
Woodman Building
1893 Bandstand
20,000 Civil War veterans tent here
9/11 Memorial
A Dirty History of Casco Bay
A Town Within A Town
Alonzo P. Stinson
Androscoggin Swinging Bridge
Annie C. McGuire Shipwreck Memorial
Arctic Campaign Memorial
Armenian Genocide Memorial
Artillery Engineer Storehouse
Asa Clapp / Asa William Henry Clapp / Mary Jane Emerson Clapp
Bachelor Officers' Quarters
Bachelor's Officers' Quarters
Back Cove Trail
Bailey Island Bridge
Battery Blair
Battery Blair
Battery Erasmus Keyes
Battery Hobart
Baxter Trail: Discover the Baxters' legacy in Portland
Birthplace of Ellen G. White
Bowdoin College War Memorial
Bowdoin College World War Memorial
Boxer and Enterprise
Bridgton's Sons Civil War Memorial
Brunswick Veterans Memorial
Capt. Henry Barrows
Casco Bay's four thousand years of sustainable, stable productivity
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
CCC Headquarters
Central Powerhouse
Charles F. Eastman
Christopher Christian Manuel
Civil War guns
Civil War Memorial
Civil War Memorial
Civil War Memorial
Civilian Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Preble
Coast Artillery Corps Memorial
Coast Guard Day
Company K, 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry
County of Cumberland
Daily Life
Danish Village Archway
Defending this vital harbor
Durant Drive
Early Settlement
East Yard
Eastern Cemetery
Eastern Cemetery
Elm Theater Mask
Field Officer's Quarters
First Congregational Church of South Portland
First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist
For All Time
Fort Gorges
Fort Preble
Fort Williams
Fort Williams
Founder of Steep Falls
Founding of the Maine Medical Association
Franklin Street Wharf
Freeport Maine Civil War Monument
Friends (Quaker) Meeting House
George Cleeves Memorial
Goddard Mansion
Gun Shed
Hack Stand of Charles H.L. Pierre
Hack Stand of Reuben Ruby
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Home of Amos Noë and Christiana Williams Freeman
Home of Charles Frederick Eastman, Harriet Stephenson Eastman, and her father, Alexander Stephenson
Home of Deacon Brown Thurston, 32 Union Street
Home of Elias and Elizabeth Widgery Thomas
Home of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Honoring those who served
In 1745
In Appreciation of The Men of Naples
India Street Terminal
J.B. McConnell
John Ford Memorial
Joseph Coffin Boyd
Liberty Ship Memorial
Lighthouse Bicentennial
Looking East
Looking North
Looking South
Maine's Jewish Fallen Heroes Memorial
Maj. Charles Greene, Jr.
Maj. Robert Biss
Major Charles J. Loring, Jr.
Major Charles J. Loring, Jr.
Mariner's Church
Mayor Baxter and the Prom: A bold vision for our public spaces
Militia Storehouse
Mining Casemate
Morris P. Cates
National Guard
Olde Saint Paul's Parish
On this site
Phinney Park
Portland Civil War Monument
Portland Head Light
Portland Head Light
Portland Maine Fort Allen Park GAR memorial
Portland Maine Fort Allen Park USS Maine Memorial
Portland Maine Fort Allen Park USS Portland Memorial
Portland Maine Korea and Vietnam Memorial
Portland Maine Spanish War/World War I Memorial
Portland Maine World War I Marker
Portland Maine World War II Memorial
Portland Observatory
Portland Observatory, Portland, Maine
Portland's Jewish War Heroes
Press Herald Building
Rear Admiral James Alden
Remember the Maine
Rev. John O'Dowd
Reverend William I. Reese
Robert Wentworth Scamman
Robinson Memorial Gate
Robinson Memorial Gate
Secondhand Clothing Store of Lloyd Scott
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding
Site of Former Schools
Site of Fort Andross and Fort George
Songo Lock
South Portland and Its Liberty Ships
South Portland's Ships for Liberty
Spanish-American War Memorial
Spring Point Ledge Light
Spurwink Church
Steep Falls Park
Steep Falls World War II Veterans Memorial
Stroudwater Burying Ground
The Desert of Maine
The poet & the view
The Site of Fort Loyal
The story of Fort Allen Park
The U.S.S. Portland at war
The Ugly Ducklings
The Ultimate Sacrifice
The Work Force
The Yard
Today, you see a healthier Casco Bay / Take a closer look
Tug Stamford Propeller
U.S.S. Eagle 56 (PE-56)
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Voyages for Victory
Wadsworth-Longfellow House
War of Independence Memorial
Webb House, circa 1830
Welcome to Back Cove Trail: An urban ecosystem / Explore: Portland's Magic Spaces
Welcome to Cliff Island
Welcome To Fort Sumner Park
West Yard
What's Going On Here?
Why build Fort Allen?
World War
World War I Memorial
World War II and Korean Conflict Memorial
WWII: On the Home Front
"Jacob Cousins left a torch for us to carry"
The area was first explored by European voyagers in the early 17th century, with English captain Christopher Levett being one of the first to record his visit to the region in 1623. However, it wasn't until the late 17th century that permanent European settlements began to be established. In 1713, the Treaty of Portsmouth officially transferred the territory from France to England, solidifying the English presence in the area.
Cumberland County experienced significant growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Portland, the county seat, emerging as a major maritime trading hub. The city became an important port for shipbuilding and trade, thriving on industries such as fishing, lumber, and shipping. Notably, during the American Revolution, the county played a crucial role in supporting the war effort, supplying ships, sailors, and supplies to the Continental Army.
In the late 19th century, Cumberland County and the city of Portland underwent significant economic and social changes. The Industrial Revolution brought rapid industrialization to the region, leading to the growth of textile mills, factories, and other industries. Portland's prominence as a major seaport continued to attract immigrants, resulting in a diverse and vibrant population. Today, Cumberland County is known for its strong economy, beautiful coastal landscapes, and rich cultural heritage, making it a desirable place to live, work, and visit.
Brief timeline of the history of Cumberland County, Maine:
- 1760: Cumberland County is established in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
- 1775-1783: Cumberland County residents actively participate in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1786: Cumberland County becomes part of the newly formed state of Maine.
- 1805: Portland is incorporated as Cumberland County's county seat.
- 1820: Maine becomes the 23rd state, and Cumberland County plays a significant role in the statehood process.
- 1849: The Cumberland and Oxford Canal is completed, connecting Portland with the Sebago Lake region.
- 1878: The Great Fire of Portland destroys much of the city, leading to significant reconstruction efforts.
- 1898: Portland becomes home to the Portland Museum of Art.
- 1951: The Maine Mall opens in South Portland, becoming the largest shopping center in the state.
- 1982: Cumberland County Civic Center (now Cross Insurance Arena) opens in Portland, hosting various events and sports teams.
- 2009: The Maine Red Claws, an NBA G League franchise, is established in Portland.
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Cumberland County, Maine.