books.google.ca - "In this book, first published in 1886, the author achieved his goal of preparing a volume of reliable local history which should be entertaining as well as instructive. Mr. Goold begins with Captain Christopher Levett, who settled a plantation in 1623 on an island near the coastal area that would later...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Portland_in_the_Past.html?id=4DfmZIJyM2UC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePortland in the Past