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TOUR: Portland Market - Portland, PA

Portland Market Owner: unknown Opened:  unknown, closed by 2022 Cooperative:  none Location:  409 N Delaware Dr, Portland, PA Photographed:  December 22, 2018 and May 29, 2022 Portland, PA is a tiny town of under 500 people directly across the Delaware River from the even tinier Columbia, NJ, with a population of just over 200. Portland might not be large enough to support a full supermarket, but they did have this small grocery store at around 6000 square feet until its closure in around 2022 or possibly earlier. This building has certainly been a grocery store for quite some time, probably nearly a century. Notice the bricked-over windows on the side here, and this wonderful cart corral on the side of the building... So let's head in and see what the Portland Market was all about. When it was in business, the store was nearly a full supermarket, even if drastically reduced in amenities. Produce was in the front right corner as seen here, with dairy and frozen taki...