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Brooksville is a town on Penobscot Bay in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census , the town population was 935. [ 2 ] It contains the villages of North Brooksville, South Brooksville (on Buck's Harbor), West Brooksville, Brooksville Corner, and Harborside (on Cape Rosier ).
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English colonists dismissed the Abenaki on the Lower Kennebec as "wild men," and gave them nicknames, generally derogatory. Chief Rawandagon, the 17th-century sagamore (headman) of the lower Kennebec, including Merrymeeting Bay, was known as Robin Hood. As in the May Fairs, he was said to head a band of "merry men."
Cobscook Bay State Park is a public recreation area occupying 888 acres (359 ha) on the western shore of Cobscook Bay in Washington County, Maine.The park offers a view of dramatically changing tides that on average can rise to 24 feet (7.3 m) high with some reaching as high as 28 feet (8.5 m).
Holbrook Island Sanctuary is a publicly owned nature preserve with recreational features occupying 1,345 acres (544 ha) on Penobscot Bay in the town of Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine. The site includes upland forest and meadows, wetland marshes and ponds, and rocky mainland shores in addition to off-shore Holbrook Island.
1945–Present. Camp Augustine is a 160-acre camp along the banks of the Platte River between Grand Island and Doniphan, Nebraska [54] Camp Butterfield: Mid-America Council: Near Orchard, NE: Closed: Camp Butterfield was located 13 miles north of Orchard, Nebraska and composed 160 acres of rolling sandhills [55] Camp Cedars: Mid-America Council
They named it Camp Phoenix. By 1898 newspapers were beginning to take notice of the quality of the fishing and hunting there. [2] By 1900 Albert was running a sporting camp in Chesuncook township, Piscataquis county, and Will McLain was working as a common laborer about 18 miles away in Township 4, Range 10, of the same county.
Topside is a historic summer estate in Brooksville, Maine.Designed by Tennessee architect William Crutchfield and built in 1918, this unusual log structure more closely resembles vacation houses found in the mountain areas of the southern United States than it those found in Maine.