Created as Phoenix Square in 1866, following that year’s Great Fire, which burned down most of the buildings of Portland, it was renamed on January 24, 1867, in honor of former president Abraham Lincoln.

[1] Lincoln Park is located near the geographic center of peninsular Portland, at the southern corner of Congress and Franklin Streets.

(The fountain was originally at the park's center, but its northern boundary was reduced in order to widen Franklin Street, a major city artery.)

Entrances, each of which is flanked by dressed granite posts, are located at the four corners, and at the center of the Federal Street side.

[5] On December 8, Portland City Council voted 8-1 in favor of denying Occupy Maine a permit to stay in the park.