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Bucksport is a historical town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,944 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Bucksport is across the Penobscot River estuary from Fort Knox and the Penobscot Narrows Bridge , which replaced the Waldo–Hancock Bridge .
The Bucksport CDP is the primary settlement in the town of Bucksport and is located in the southwestern part of the town limits at 44°34′41″N 68°47′39″W (44.577934, −68.794173). [3] The western border of the CDP follows the Bucksport town line (and Hancock– Waldo County line) down the middle of the Penobscot River.
Fictional location. In the series, Collinsport is a small, coastal fishing village located in Hancock County in the U.S. state of Maine, on the coast about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Bangor which would be Bar Harbor area, Mt. Desert Island are where the mansions are. Characters on the show sometimes visit or refer to Bangor or Portland, Maine.
The Buck Memorial Library is the public library of Bucksport, Maine. It is located at 47 Maine Street in the center of the town, in an architecturally distinguished Gothic Revival stone structure designed by George A. Clough and built in 1887. The building was a gift from the family of Richard Buck, a descendant of Bucksport founder Jonathan ...
Fort Knox (Maine) Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, [1] is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the mouth of the river. Built between 1844 and 1869, it was the first fort in Maine built entirely of granite; most previous forts used wood ...
The James Emery House, also known as Linwood Cottage, is a historic house on Main Street in Bucksport, Maine. An architecturally eclectic mix of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italianate styling, the house was built c. 1855 on a site overlooking the Penobscot River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 for its ...
Jonathan Buck was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on February 20, 1719, and raised in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He died March 18, 1795, in Bucksport, Maine. He is the founder of the town of Bucksport, having settled what was known as Plantation 1, building the first sawmill and opening the first general store. [1] The two grave markers for Col ...
Northeast Historic Film (NHF) is a regional moving image archive located in Bucksport, Maine. It is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing film and video related to the people of Northern New England. The archive safeguards film and videotape through restoration, duplication, creation of access tools ...