SOUTH

See also:

• PORTLAND
• PORTLAND, EARL OF
• PORTLAND, ISLE OF
• PORTLAND, WILLIAM BENTINCK, EARL
• PORTLAND, WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH BENTINCK

PORTLAND  , a city of Cumberland county, Maine, U.S.A., on Casco Bay, an arm of which separates it from Portland, with which it is connected by a ferry and four bridges . Pop . (1900) 6287 (763 foreign-born); (r91o) 7471 . South Portland is served by the Boston & Maine railway . It is the seat of the State (Reform) School for Boys . At Spring Point is Fort Preble, established in 1808 and now a coast artillery statiosl; and at Portland Head is Fort Williams . The city has steel-rolling mills, car shops of the Boston & Maine railway, and ship-building interests, and manufactures marine hardware and varnish . South Portland was part of the old town of Cape Elizabeth (pop. in 1900, 887) until March 1895; the legislature granted it a city charter in 1895, which was not accepted by the town until December 1898 .