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Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, United States. [3] The 2020 Census determined it had a population of 8,399. [ 4 ] Named after United States Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth , it contains historic buildings and other points of interest, and is close to Acadia National Park .
Ellsworth City Hall stands on a hill north of United States Route 1, overlooking the city's central business district, separated from it by a parking lot.It is a two-story brick building, with a horizontal gable-roofed main block, which is flanked by hip-roofed perpendicular wings, and which has a center projecting gable-roof entry section.
John Hancock of Massachusetts, the namesake of Hancock County High tide near Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park; Hancock County, Maine, is a major tourist destination in the United States. Ocean waves at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park Jordan Pond (July 4, 2014) Hancock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine.
Location of Hancock County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hancock County, Maine, United States.
SR 184 shares a 300-foot-long (91 m) concurrency with SR 204 in this area. After the concurrency, the road passes the town offices of Lamoine and begins to start curving to the northeast. SR 184 enters the city of Ellsworth but ends shortly thereafter at US 1 about two miles (3.2 km) southeast of the downtown area. [2]
The Old Hancock County Buildings are a pair of Greek Revival buildings on Court Street, at a triangular intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) and Maine State Route 172 in Ellsworth, Maine. Originally built in 1834 and 1838 to house Ellsworth Town Hall and the Hancock County courthouse, they are now owned and occupied by the Courthouse Art Gallery.
SR 179 begins at a skewed intersection with U.S. Route 1A (US 1A) about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) northwest of downtown Ellsworth, but still within the city limits. Within the small commercialized settlement of Ellsworth Falls, SR 179 immediately crosses a disused railroad and a new rail trail past the US 1A intersection.
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 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and plantations. [ 2 ]