Portland Street (Yarmouth, Maine)

43°47′32″N 70°11′22″W / 43.792085°N 70.189362°W / 43.792085; -70.189362

Portland Street

The northern end of Portland Street, at Yarmouth's Main Street, in 2017
Length	1.25 mi (2.01 km)
Location	Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.
Northern end	Main Street (State Route 115)
Major junctions	U.S. Route 1
Southern end	Middle Road

Portland Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) from the town's Main Street, State Route 115, in the north to its merge with Middle Road in the south. It is so named because it leads to Portland, the state's largest city, after linking up with State Route 9 in Falmouth, Maine. (Yarmouth's Elm Street, which runs parallel to Portland Street around a half mile to the northwest, was formerly known as the "Portland road", for it was an early route into Portland prior to the Presumpscot River being bridged at Martin's Point in Falmouth Foreside.)

Today's Portland Street is bisected near its halfway point by U.S. Route 1. The Beth Condon Memorial Pathway, part of the East Coast Greenway, originates on the western side of the Portland Street and Route 1 intersection.^[1]

The Central Parish Church has stood opposite the northern end of Portland Street since 1860. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.