"The Richland Methodists organized here in 1877, saving their members from traveling three miles to attend services in Fountain Head, and built their own worship sanctuary in 1882. The congregation grew up with Portland and merged with the Fountain…
This picture is of the 1931 building that was built at a cost of $70,000. It was fashioned after Isaac Litton High School in Nashville. A gymnasium was added in 1948. A new school was built in 1962 and this building became the Junior High…
Aerial view shows the crate factory warehouse (large roof building just before the Y split), the old mill building (just after Y split on bottom) and Lewis Hunter's Grocery (long white building far right toward bottom).
This is an aerial view showing Portland in 1948. Main Street is in the upper left quadrant. The old mill building is just past the Y in the road about midline on the right. In the very top upper right corner you can just see the Methodist Church…
This is the old mill building that was originally built in 1892. This would have been on Jackson Rd. in Portland where the CEMC pole yard is currently. (2019)