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Portage Lake, Maine. Portage Lake is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 391 at the 2010 census.
Some settlers came from the Levant Plateau region of Nova Scotia, thus the name. The importance of water power on the townâs economy in the 1880âs was noted in the Gazetteer of Maine: The Little Kenduskeag, or Black Stream, is the principal water-course, pursing a widely winding way from west to east through the town.