Portland Maine Walking Tours

15/10/2024

Great Eastern.

SS Great Eastern was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London. She was the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refuelling. Her length of 692 feet (211 m) was surpassed only in 1899 by the 705-foot (215 m) 17,274-gross-ton RMS Oceanic, her gross tonnage of 18,915 was only surpassed in 1901 by the 701-foot (214 m) 20,904-gross-ton RMS Celtic and her 4,000-passenger capacity was surpassed in 1913 by the 4,234-passenger SS Imperator. The ship's five funnels were rare and were later reduced to four. The vessel also had the largest set of paddle wheels.

09/09/2024

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08/08/2024

The Prince Project walking tour of Portland's Eastern Cemetery uncovers the City's Black history we were never taught.

08/07/2024

A few fun minutes in Maine, some here in Portland.

01/07/2024

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26/06/2024

05/06/2024

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Featured in Portland Old Port's Weekend Guide this week.

One of Yankee Magazine’s top five cemetery tours in New England! Walk Portland’s Old Burying Ground with a trained guide. Hallowed? Not officially. Historic? Absolutely. Haunted? You decide. Visit the cemetery’s unique field of underground tombs, the oldest gravemarker from 1717, t

03/06/2024

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Walk the Working Waterfront is a community event focused on supporting the ocean economy, the fishermen, businesses, entities, and people that make Portland, Maine an authentic seaside city.

22/05/2024

Portland Head Light and the wreck of the Annie C. Maquire on Christmas Eve in 1886, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

17/05/2024

Working to ensure that South Portland is a place where all have equal opportunity to earn, learn, and

09/05/2024

05/05/2024

Frederick A. Tompson (1857-1919) was the architect for Evergreen Cemetery’s Wilde Memorial Chapel. He began his draftsmen’s training immediately after his 1876 graduation from Portland High School. He, like John Calvin Stevens three years earlier, joined the practice of Francis H. Fassett, the city’s most prominent architect. He remained with the firm until 1891 when he opened his own office. In addition to Wilde Chapel, he designed numerous public and private buildings during his 28 year career. A selective list of Tompson’s designs include:
Walker Memorial Library in Westbrook (1892)
Castle-in-the-Park in Deering Oaks (1894)
Armory on Milk Street (1895)
Emerson School on Munjoy Hill (1897-98)
Charles O. Haskell house at 52 Neal St. (1897)
Henry P. Cox house at 231 Western Promenade (1898)
West Mansion on the Western Promenade (1911)
Masonic Temple on Congress Street (1912)
Exposition Building on Park Avenue (1914).

His design skills were not restricted to architecture. He was also a talented landscape painter, a sculptor, and a photographer.

20/04/2024

09/04/2024

Maine State Pier. Old Port, Portland Harbor. Portland, Maine. 1949.

The Aircraft Carrier USS Sicily CVE-118 docked at the U.S. Navy dock. Seeing an aircraft carrier in Portland Harbor is a rare sight.

Image courtesy of the Portland Press Herald Archive.

03/11/2023

Maine’s coastal capital is the perfect long weekend hideout. Here’s how to experience it in three delicious days.

29/10/2023

We’ve added 2 more nights to Walk Among the Shadows! Thursday, November 2 & Sunday, November 5. Get your tickets now or at the gate! Website page with Ticket link in bio.