As the story goes, two of the founders, Francis Pettygrove and Asa Lovejoy, couldn't agree on a name for their new city. They decided to flip a coin to decide the name – Pettygrove wanted to name it after his hometown of Portland, Maine, while Lovejoy wanted to name it after his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Wilbur watched as the two men flipped the coin, holding his breath in anticipation. The coin landed, and Portland it was!