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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 .
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, earth, and stone ...
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 Buck, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Hubbardton is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.The town was named for Thomas Hubbard, a landholder. [3] The population was 735 at the 2020 census. [4]The town was the site of the Battle of Hubbardton, where British forces attacked Americans during the Saratoga Campaign of 1777.
Maine Route 15 follows Main Street through the center of Bucksport and leads north up the Penobscot 19 miles to Bangor. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Bucksport CDP has a total area of 14.6 square miles (37.7 km 2 ), of which 11.4 square miles (29.6 km 2 ) are land and 3.1 square miles (8.1 km 2 ), or 21.54%, are water.
Vermont Route 144 is a 6.8 mile east–west highway extending from Route 22A in Benson through Hubbardton past Lake Hortonia before terminating at Route 30 in Sudbury. Vermont Route 149 is an east–west highway extending from the New York state line for only 1.3 miles to Vermont 30 in Pawlet.
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.
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.