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quickly prospered through shipbuilding and the export of inland pines which

made excellent masts. A long line of wooden wharves stretched along the sea

front, with the merchants' houses on the hillside above. FROM the earliest

days it was a cosmopolitan city. When the railroads came, the Canada Trunk

Line had its terminal right on Portland's quayside, bringing the produce of

Canada and the Great Plains one hundred miles closer to Europe than it would

at any other major US port. Some of the wharves are now taken up by new

condo developments, with the exception of Customs House Wharf which remains

much as it used to be.

Grand Trunk Station was torn down in 1966 and a revitalization program of

this historic section was spearheaded by a group of committed residents. The

result was the revival of the Old Port Exchange District with its red-brick

streets built in the 1860s following a disastrous fire. The area today

features a wide variety of restaurants, specialty and antique shops and

makes for a pleasant place to go strolling. Congress Street and its many

side streets are an engaging mixture of culture,

commerce and history. Art is everywhere, FROM the Portland Museum of Art to

the many statues and monuments throughout the city. Other points of interest

include the Portland Observatory, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's childhood

home, several colonial mansions and Fort Williams Park, with the adjacent

Portland Head Light. Further afar one can visit the charming yachting and

fishing village of Kennebunkport, also noted as the locale of the home and

former summer White House of ex-President George Bush.

Other attractions include the factory outlets of Freeport. About a 45 minute

drive north of Portland, this shopping mecca is crammed with serious

shoppers who come FROM as far away as New York.

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