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1938: Bill Powers stands outside his shack in Shanty Town the day after the City Council decided to evict the squatters and raze the buildings that were built on the Back Bay dump which stretched along the southern edge of the water.
Powers and his wife paid $30 for the shack which they had lived in over the winter. Portland Press Herald photo courtesy Portland Public Library Special Collections and Archives
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