Should Portland be renamed? (lawyer, dangerous, move to)

[Poor&Dangerous]

People confuse Portland, OR and Portland, ME. Many cities have the same names obviously, but when it comes to bigger cities, they shouldn't have the same name for the sake of identity and convenience. ME was here first so Portland, OR should have been named something else, esp when it is not even a big port or sea town. Agree/disagree? What would be a good alternative name?

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by Poor&Dangerous

People confuse Portland, OR and Portland, ME. Many cities have the same names obviously, but when it comes to bigger cities, they shouldn't have the same name for the sake of identity and convenience. ME was here first so Portland, OR should have been named something else, esp when it is not even a big port or sea town. Agree/disagree? What would be a good alternative name?

I'm from the east coast and usually Portland means Oregon there because its 10 times the size of the Maine one.

[Poor&Dangerous]

Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

I'm from the east coast and usually Portland means Oregon there because its 10 times the size of the Maine one.

the metro area is not 10 times more, nobody looks at cities only...

[skiffrace]

I suggest that the place in Maine renames their village...

Here is a brief history of "true" Portland :-)

In 1843, Tennessee drifter William Overton and his friend, Boston lawyer Asa Lovejoy were floating down the Willamette River in a canoe when they came upon the beauty of the place we now call Portland. They beached their canoe and they marveled at the beautiful mountains and the rich potential of the many trees they saw.

Overton didn’t have the quarter that was required to file a land claim, so he sold half of his 640-acre share to Lovejoy for 25 cents. They began to clear the many trees, build roads and build the first buildings. After a while, Overton decided to move on and sold his half of the share to Francis Pettygrove.

Portland got its name when Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove flipped a coin in 1845. Lovejoy was from Massachusetts and he wanted to name the new settlement Boston. Pettygrove was from Maine and wanted to name the new town Portland. Pettygrove won the coin toss two out of three times and the rest as they say is history. Portland’s first Post Office opened in 1849, and the steam sawmill’s whistle could be heard as far away as Fort Vancouver.

[Poor&Dangerous]

Originally Posted by skiffrace

I suggest that the place in Maine renames their village...

Here is a brief history of "true" Portland :-)

yea, i saw that, that was a lame move to name your new city the same name as your old city, imagine if the other guy won, you'd have Boston, OR...

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by Poor&Dangerous

the metro area is not 10 times more, nobody looks at cities only...

Ok. Anyway. In the mid Atlantic, people think of Oregon

[EnricoV]

Originally Posted by Poor&Dangerous

yea, i saw that, that was a lame move to name your new city the same name as your old city, imagine if the other guy won, you'd have Boston, OR...

Yeah, because whoever named Portland, Maine pulled it out of thin air ... and didn't name it after wherever they came from in England.

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by Poor&Dangerous

People confuse Portland, OR and Portland, ME. Many cities have the same names obviously, but when it comes to bigger cities, they shouldn't have the same name for the sake of identity and convenience. ME was here first so Portland, OR should have been named something else, esp when it is not even a big port or sea town. Agree/disagree? What would be a good alternative name?

Portland, Oregon has a big port. It's had a big port going back to the 19th Century. It's the largest inland port on the West Coast, among the five biggest in the west in terms of total tonnage and ranked seventh in the nation for total tonnage of foreign exports.

Originally Posted by Poor&Dangerous

yea, i saw that, that was a lame move to name your new city the same name as your old city, imagine if the other guy won, you'd have Boston, OR...

Gee, maybe New York and New Jersey should be renamed with better names than simply putting a "New" in front of towns/regions originally in England... Oh what's that? No one cares?

[Poor&Dangerous]

Originally Posted by EnricoV

Yeah, because whoever named Portland, Maine pulled it out of thin air ... and didn't name it after wherever they came from in England.

bla..irrelevant, nobod cares about england

Originally Posted by Deezus

Portland, Oregon has a big port. It's had a big port going back to the 19th Century. It's the largest inland port on the West Coast, among the five biggest in the west in terms of total tonnage and ranked seventh in the nation for total tonnage of foreign exports.



Gee, maybe New York and New Jersey should be renamed with better names than simply putting a "New" in front of towns/regions originally in England... Oh what's that? No one cares?

its still a different name and nobod will confuse NY/NJ

[jjpop]

My vote would be to rename Portland, ME.

Notportlandoregon, ME.