Gateway to vacationland : the making of Portland, Maine /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- From beleaguered outpost to booming port city, 1632/1860
- Civil War, the great fire, and re-shaping Portland's urban image
- J.B. Baxter's city: from seaport entrepot to port of call, 1882/1896
- Urban growth, urban problems, and a new vision of the city beautiful: Portland as a progressive city, 1893/1915
- The sunrise gateway in Depression and war
- Postwar Portland, 1943/1965
- The gateway reborn, 1965/1985
- Conclusion: service city, tourist city, modern Portland.