2 Hours | Portland Hidden Histories Walking Tour in Portland booking from $49.00

2 Hours | Portland Hidden Histories Walking Tour

Overview

Meet Portland and the people—of all backgrounds and identities—whose wit and grit have made Maine's largest city what it is today. Your locally-raised guide will captivate you with extraordinary, exciting, and surprising stories largely left out of the history books. Get ready to broaden your sense of what Portland and Maine have been and could be.

Brick sidewalks beneath your feet and beautiful Victorian-era buildings nestled around you, we'll casually stroll Portland’s lush, historic Old Port toward the sparkling waters of Casco Bay. We’ll see where Indigenous Wabanaki leaders made their earliest relationships with European colonizers and walk together through the centuries.

Enjoy an inclusive, empowering, and surprising constellation of tales that offers a welcome contrast to the more obvious themes you’re likely to experience on other tours. You'll enjoy 2 hours of narration over a 1.5-mile route with owner and guide, Dugan Murphy. He is Portland's top-rated guide on TripAdvisor!

City: Portland

Thu 23 Oct

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What's Included

10% off water tours with Portland Paddle (instructions at confirmation)

Two hour fully narrated guided tour.

Donation toward restoring the Abyssinian Meeting House, America's third-oldest standing Black church

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Pets are not allowed on tours unless medically required.
Portland is a hilly city. Participants will walk uphill sometimes, along some cobblestones, up a staircase of 6 steps, and down two staircases (24 steps total).

What To Expect

Commercial Street

We'll stroll through the waterfront district along Commercial Street, discovering the people and economic forces that forged it. Get ready for an inclusive, empowering, and surprising constellation of tales that offers a welcome contrast to the more obvious themes you’re likely to experience on other tours. Stops include: United States Custom House, Custom House Wharf, Portland Pier, Wharf Street, and lots of places you'll want to visit later!

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (399)

Winston L

Mar 2022

If this is your first time walking around Portland, or if like me you've lived here for years, Dugan's tours will give you important context with which to enjoy Portland. It's a small city, but, it's history is deep & complex- it's apparent that Dugan has done a great deal of research in putting these tours together. Not all the stories have happy endings, or are all that pretty either- it's real history. I took the Hidden Histories tour, and then a week or two later the Black History tour. For a local like me the Hidden Histories tour had a few more things I knew about, though, there was civil war battle in Portland Harbor I'd never heard of, and some details about the great fires I didn't know! I would really recommend the Hidden Histories tour for folks who are new to Portland! I don't think you could go wrong, but on the Black History tour I learned more than I thought possible... I knew that there was surely Black History in Portland- we where a pretty logical stop in the underground railroad to Canada, but, Dugan really uncovered some really interesting characters you just don't hear much about. Dugan's approach to History is an incredibly character & narrative driven one. Very helpfully, he carries a binder with pictures, paintings & photographs, of the people he talks about, which helps one to picture them.

Response from Host

Mar 2022

Guests keep telling me that the images help everyone appreciate the amazing people from Portland's past, as well as to visualize important changes in the built environment around us on the tour. Assembling the images and doing the research was totally worth it to see the amazement in guests' faces when they hear these remarkable stories.

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Mar 2022

I enjoyed the tour. Recommended for those interested in history. I had a question the tour guide didn't know the answer to but he sent me an email after with details!

Response from Host

Mar 2022

I absolutely love nurturing curiosity and questions. I'm happy to follow up later with reading or film recommendations and to answer questions I didn't get to on the tour. Let me know if there's something else you want to know more about!

dominiqued762

Jul 2024

The guide knew his story well and took the time to answer any questions. He was prepared! This tour allows you to see especially the center of the city.

Response from Host

Jul 2024

Merci ! J'aime répondre aux questions.

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