When Portland Oregon was named two founders argued over the name. One wanted Portland after his home town in Maine and the other wanted to name the town Boston. A coin toss took place and Portland won!! Obviously we have a huge port so this name makes perfect sense.
Portland is a city that has come to symbolize the soccer culture.
Portland is the name of major cities in Maine and in Oregon. However, it is not the name of the capital in either of those states (the capitals are: Augusta, Maine and Salem, Oregon). No state in the U.S. has Portland as its capital.
yes, that is where most of them are believed to have come from
Portland, Oregon Portland, Maine
That was the Portland Breakers. The team started in Boston in 1983, moved to New Orleans in 1984, and then to Portland in 1985.
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is Oregon's capitol city. It sits near two rivers. The United States has 14 states with cities named Portland: Maine, Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, North Dakota, Indiana, Connecticut, Michigan, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky. These 14 cities, all named Portland, range from urban large cities to small and sometimes rural locations. There is also a Portlandville in New York, and a Portland Mills in Pennsylvania. In colonial US times, the name Portland may have come from colonists' knowledge about the Isle of Portland, England.
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the two founders of PORTLAND, OR were both from cities on the east coast. One man was from Boston, Massachusettes and another was from Portland Maine. Both wanted to name the new city after their home towns...so they flipped a coin. The winner of the coin toss was the guy from Portland Maine.
Portland got its name when Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove flipped a coin in 1845. Lovejoy was from Massachusetts and he wanted to name the new settlement Boston. Pettygrove was from Maine and wanted to name the new town Portland. Pettygrove won the coin toss two out of three times and the rest as they say is history.
A coin toss was used to decide the name. One of the city's founders was from Maine and the other was from Massachusetts. Boston was the losing name.