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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 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 ...
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.
List of municipalities in Maine. Maine is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1,372,247 inhabitants, and the 12th smallest by land area, spanning 30,842.92 square miles (79,882.8 km 2). [1] Maine is divided into 16 counties and contains 482 ...
90000925 [1] Added to NRHP. June 14, 1990. The Elm Street Congregational Church and Parish House is a historic church complex at Elm and Franklin Streets in Bucksport, Maine. It includes a Greek Revival church building, built in 1838 to a design by Benjamin S. Deane, and an 1867 Second Empire parish house. The church congregation was founded in ...
Added to NRHP. April 28, 1975. The Bucksport Railroad Station is a historic railroad station on Main Street in Bucksport, Maine. The station was built in 1874 by the European and North American Railway, and is one of a small number of surviving rural railroad stations in Maine. It is now home to the Bucksport Historical Society Museum.
The Eastern Maine Methodist Conference was established in 1848, due in part to the rise in Methodism's popularity in the region in the 1840s. The conference elected to build a seminary soon afterward, and Wilson Hall was built in 1850-51. It is the largest Greek Revival building in Bucksport, and was home to the county's only seminary.
86000074 [1] The Jed Prouty Tavern and Inn is an historic building at 57 Main Street in downtown Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine. It was built around 1780 as a two family home and was converted into a tavern and inn around 1820. In this guise it hosted prominent national figures, including Daniel Webster and Presidents Martin Van Buren and ...