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Aerial view of Wheeler Street. The white loop was the second location of the Portland Planing Mill. The first location was across the street. (Information taken from the back of the photo.)

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…

The gentlemen are unidentified. The building on the left was the original post office, a store and a residence at different times. The building on the right at times belonged to O.O. Massey and Beeler Dye.

The depot is the building on the right with a railroad flatcar and steam roller parked at the loading ramp. The logs that the men are sitting on are black walnut logs.

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)

"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 is an aerial view of both the Jr. High and High Schools. The picture states a date of April 22, 1937. Note that there is no gym on either building.