PORT JERVIS 



1770 



PORTLAND 



Saint Clair, 6,118 feet long. Detroit is fifty- 

 seven miles southwest, and Saginaw is ninety 

 miles northwest. The city has steamboat con- 

 nections with lake ports and is served by tin- 

 Grand Trunk and the Pere Marquette rail- 

 roads. In 1916 the population was 18363. The 

 area of the city exceeds seven square miles. 



Port Huron is a summer resort which enter- 

 tains about 15.000 visitors annually. It has 

 beaches, as well as Pine Grove, Lakeside, Grat- 

 iot and White Parks. Among many fine struc- 

 tures are the Federal building, city hall, United 

 States customhouse, courthouse, Y. M. C. A. 

 building, two Maccabee temples, convention 

 hall, a Carnegie Library and a hospital. 



Shipping and manufacturing are important 

 industries, and the city controls a large trade 

 with Canada. In 1915 the value of exports 

 amounted to $36,855,761; imports were valued 

 at $8.051,029. The chief manufactures are agri- 

 cultural implements and machinery, milling 

 machinery, and gas and gasoline engines. In 

 the city are extensive shipbuilding works and 

 the Grand Trunk car and locomotive shops. 



The city was at first a settlement about 

 Fort Gratiot ; it was established in 1814 by the 

 United States government, was organized in 

 1849 and became a city in 1857. In 1910 the 

 commission form of government was adopted. 



PORT JERVIS, N. Y., a summer resort in 

 Orange County, eighty-eight miles northwest 

 of New York City, at the junction of the New 

 York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania state lines. 

 Here the waters of the Delaware and Neversink 

 rivers meet. Transportation is provided by the 

 Erie and the New York, Ontario & Western 

 railways. The place was named in honor of 

 John Bloomfield Jervis, the engineer who be- 

 gan the construction of the Delaware and Hud- 

 son Canal (now abandoned), shortly after the 

 first settlement was made in 1826. The village 

 was incorporated in 1853, and it became a city 

 in 1907. Its population was 9,564 in 1910; in 

 1915 it was 9,413 (state census) and 9,676 (Fed- 

 eral estimate) in 1916. 



Besides being in itself a popular resort Port 

 Jervis is the gateway to a district widely known 

 for picturesque scenery and beautiful waterfalls, 

 and the country near by is much frequented 

 during the summer months. The city has a 

 Federal building, a soldiers' monument, a pub- 

 lic library and Saint Mary's Orphan Asylum. 

 Silver-plating works, foundries and factories for 

 making glass, silk and gloves are among the in- 

 dustrial plants. The b-'g railroad shops of the 

 Erie Railroad are also located here. 



PORTLAND, ME., a seaport on Casco Bay 

 :ind the county seat of Cumberland County, i> 

 the largest city in the .<tate. and is also the 

 leading industrial center. In 1910 the popula- 

 tion was 58,571; in 1916 it was 63,867 (Federal 

 estimate). Portland is situated on the south- 

 west coast of the state, fifty miles southwest of 

 Augusta, the state capital, and 108 miles north- 

 east of Boston. It is on a peninsula between 

 the Back Bay and Fore River, which separates 

 it from the city of South Portland. 



The large, deep harbor is one of the best on 

 either coast of North. America, and is protected 

 by five strong forts Preble, Levett, Lyon, Mc- 

 Kinley and Williams garrisoned by two thou- 

 sand men. The picturesque stone castle, Old 

 Fort Gorges, and Fort Scammel are no longer 

 equipped. About the harbor are a large num- 

 ber of lighthouses. Direct steamship lines con- 

 nect Portland with New York, Boston, and all 

 coast points as far north as Saint John, New 

 Brunswick. During the winter months, when 

 the Saint Lawrence is frozen, Portland is the 

 port for the transatlantic ocean traffic which 

 terminates at Montreal and Quebec in summer. 

 Portland is the terminus of the Boston & 

 Maine, the Maine Central and the Grand 

 Trunk railroads, and from the city five inter- 

 urban lines radiate throughout a large terri- 

 tory. 



Interesting Features. Portland is twenty-one 

 and one-half square miles in area. The penin- 

 sula upon which it is situated is about three 

 miles long, extending eastward into Casco Bay. 

 Two great hills terminating in bluffs rise one 

 at the east end and one at the west end of the 

 peninsula. Munjoy Hill, the eastern elevation, 

 is a residential section, and on the brow of 

 the hill are the Eastern Promenade and Fort 

 Allen Park. The view presented is a fine 

 panorama of the harbor with its many islands. 

 Bramhall Hill, also a residence section, has the 

 Western Promenade, offering a good view of 

 the White Mountains about seventy miles west. 

 Deering Oaks, Lincoln and Fort Sumner parks, 

 in addition to those already mentioned, are 

 the largest areas of the city's park system. A 

 statue of Thomas Brackett Reed, and one of 

 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Longfellow 

 Square, both of whom were born in Portland, 

 and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial are in- 

 teresting public monuments. One of the fine 

 structures of the city is the $1,500,000 concrete 

 bridge spanning the harbor to South Portland. 



Buildings. Chief among the historic shrines 

 is the birthplace of Longfellow. The property 



