Farmer's Markets in Portland

Wednesdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Monument Square
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon at Deering Oaks Park.

A free self-guided tour of local art galleries, art studios, museums,
and alternative art venues on the First Friday of every month from 5-8 pm.
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Forbes.com Names Portland "Most Livable City"
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Area Attractions

Center for Maine History
207.774.1822
489 Congress Street
Features changing exhibitions on Maine history. Unique gifts and books.
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Children's Museum of Maine
207.828.1234
142 Free St.
Inspiring discovery & imagination through exploration & play.
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City Hall
207.874.8300
389 Congress Street
Designed in the grande French Hotel de Ville style; houses Merrill Auditorium and the 1912 Kotzschmar organ.
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First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
207.773.5747
425 Congress Street
This historical landmark is the oldest stone building in the state of Maine. Open for services and by appointment.

Longfellow House
207.772.1807
487 Congress Street
Childhood home of famed 19th Century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, built in 1786. Open June-October and Christmas holiday

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Statue
Longfellow Square
Bronze statue of poet by native sculptor Franklin Simmons.

John Ford Statue
On the eastern edge of the Old Port District, you'll find a square called Gorham Corner (a sign reads HERE SETTLED IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN 1840) with a bronze likeness of film director John Ford, a Portland native, smoking a pipe atop a mound of beach stones. Born Sean Aloysius O'Feeney in 1895, Ford went on to direct classics like The Quiet Man and The Grapes of Wrath.

Take a trip back in time at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum! Enjoy magnificent views of Portland's waterfront aboard antique rail cars pulled by hard-working steam and diesel locomotives.
Discover the unique two-foot gauge trains that linked rural Maine to the rest of the world.
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Portland Fire Museum
207.767.3826
157 Spring Street
Artifacts, photographs & other memorabilia documenting Portland's history of fire service.
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Portland Head Light
Fort WIlliams Park
South Portland
When ever you see pictures of Portland, this landmark, actually in South Portland, is what you see. There is a large park with plenty of space for a picnic. Worth the drive. For more info, click here.

Portland Observatory
138 Congress Street
It's not a lighthouse! (And it has nothing to do with astronomy.) The Portland Observatory (1807) is the only extant maritime signal station in the United States, and thus a unique architectural icon of maritime shipping and the "Golden Age of Sail." The Portland Observatory was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and has been recommended for National Historic Landmark status.

Portland Museum of Art
207.775.6148 X 3223
7 Congress Square
Fine & decorative arts from the 18th century to the present housed in an award winning building designed by I.M. Pei & Partners. Works by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Andrew Wyeth
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Portland Trails
305 Commercial Street, Portland
207.775.2411
A dynamic urban conservation organization and land trust founded in 1991. Their vision of a multi-use trail system is rooted in the turn-of-the-century "American Park Movement." Under the direction of then-mayor James Phinney Baxter, the renowned landscape architectural firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot was hired in 1905 to create plans for improvements to Back Cove that included a connected system of parkways around the city.For more info, click here.

Old Port Customs House
207.780.3326
312 Fore Street
Built after the Great Fire of 1866 that leveled most of the city. Still in use by Customs Service and the Coast Guard.

Portland Fish Exchange
207.773.0017
6 Portland Fish Pier
The region's largest "full display auction" of fresh fish from the Gulf of Maine.
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Portland Soldiers and Sailor's Monument
Monument Square
Monument sculpted by Franklin Simmons, dedicated in 1891 to Portland soldiers & sailors who served in the Civil War.

Victoria Mansion
207.772.4841
109 Danforth Street
Guided tours of Victoria Mansion, one of the High Victorian period's greatest houses, enable the visitor to see the mansion's interior,
which is still over 90 per cent original, and are scheduled from May through the end of October, Tuesdays to Sundays.
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Local flavor puts Portland in national travel spotlight

Portland Farmer's Market Named In Top 10 By Travel and Leisure