One of the founders (Francis Pettygrove) was originally from Portland Maine, and the other was from Boston. They both wanted to name the new city after their hometown.

It’s entirely possible that part of Pettygrove why wanted to name it after his hometown is because he thought it would be fitting for river port city. But idk if he ever stated anything to that effect.

Nope, the name was decided with coin flip. Lol Could ended up as Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Penny

Well those dang West coast liberals didn’t vote hard enough for Trump. If anything does happen…the West coast get what’s coming to them, because why would the US president worry about states that didn’t vote for him??? I say as someone living on the West Coast.

We live in the worst timeline.