https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Maine
it's roughly 3000 miles from portland to portland
Portland Or is named after Portland Maine
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TUL that cities in different states can be named the same. This is very common.
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I'm still salty about the Geoguessr game where I found the city name on the street sign and still missed by 3000 miles.
But speaking of the wrong Portland, just wait until you learn about Springfield.
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There is also a New York, Texas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_Texas
That was a brainfuck to me as well, I had no idea until Louis Rossmann moved from New York to Texas...
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Random fact: it's because of a rich entrepreneur from Portland that my small native town in Québec got a railway in 1850. The first international railway was between Portland and Montréal. It still exists.
Portland OR was named after Portland ME because a guy won a coin toss and named it after his home town. The other guy wanted to name it "Boston."
Before that it was known as "The Clearing".
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Named after the Isle of Portland in Dorset
I traveled out to Portland OR, in 2018 to watch the finish of the Motorcycle Cannonball run when. They ran between these two cities. It was limited to pre-1929 antique motorcycles.
Where does the cement come from?
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Has the symmetry gone unnoticed?
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