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Community conversation to focus on past, future of Portland’s Trolley Park
The city is seeking ideas on how to improve the Riverton park.
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Riverton Trolley Park was once home to a stately casino, seen here in 1910. The park, developed by the Portland Railroad Company in 1896 as a popular day-trip destination via trolley, offered a variety of amusements, including a dining hall, theater, boating facilities, a petting zoo and a midway.
Contributed / New England Electric Railways History Society
PORTLAND Today it is a wooded parcel of land with trails connecting to a municipal golf course and leading to the Presumpscot River, but a century ago Riverton Trolley Park was one of Portland’s top attractions.