Portland, Missouri
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}}
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Portland is an unincorporated community in southeastern Callaway County, Missouri, United States.{{GNIS|724770}} It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. Portland is located just north of the Missouri River on Route 94, approximately 24 miles east-northeast of Jefferson City.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.38 {{isbn|0899332242}}
History
The village was laid out in 1831.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n36 268]}} Its location directly on the Missouri River made it a popular shipping point for the farms and plantations of Callaway County. The name Portland stems from that activity.{{cite book|last=McMillen|first=Margot Ford|title=Paris, Tightwad and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names|year=1994|publisher=University of Missouri Press|page=41|location=Columbia, Missouri|isbn=0-8262-0972-6}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Callaway County, Missouri
Category:Jefferson City metropolitan area
Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Category:Missouri populated places on the Missouri River
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