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Western Promenade
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Ski Jump:
| K-Point: | ca. 20 m |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1924 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 43.645975, -70.276361 
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History:
In 1924, a temporary ski jump was built in Portland, Maine, for the Winter Carnival. The structure was erected in Western Promenade Park – one of the city’s oldest recreational areas – overlooking the Fore River valley.
The ski jump was designed and constructed by Birger Olsen, a Norwegian immigrant and winter sports enthusiast. The wooden structure, resembling the classic early American ski jumping towers, allowed jumps of several dozen meters. The event drew large crowds – according to newspaper reports, more than 5,000 spectators attended the competition, making it one of the largest winter sporting gatherings in Maine at the time.
One of the participants was 16-year-old Margaret Towne from Berlin, New Hampshire, who represented the emerging women’s branch of ski jumping in New England.
The jump was a one-time construction and did not survive the following winter seasons. There is no record of its expansion or of subsequent competitions in later years. No traces of the structure remain today, and the Western Promenade Park itself has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989 as part of Portland’s historic urban landscape.
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