Munjoy Hill

43°40′02″N 70°14′56″W / 43.667281°N 70.248937°W / 43.667281; -70.248937

Munjoy Hill
Top: from the Portland Observatory looking northeast on Congress Street; middle top: Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization Hill House in 2010; middle bottom: Portland Observatory c. 1910 bottom: the Munjoy Hill skyline, viewed from the southeast in 2024
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CountryUnited States
CityPortland, Maine

Munjoy Hill is a neighborhood and prominent geographical feature of Portland, Maine. It is located east of downtown and south of East Deering. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the neighborhood had a large Irish and Italian American population.[1]

The neighborhood is named for George Munjoy, who settled near the intersection of Mountfort Street and Fore Street.

Looking northwest across Cumberland Avenue to Back Cove
Looking southeast down Waterville Street toward Casco Bay, with Bug Light and (in the far right-hand corner) Portland Head Light
  1. ^ "MAINE: Skirmish on Munjoy Hill". Time. October 22, 1951. Archived from the original on November 23, 2010.

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