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Bucksport
Bucksport is a town in Hancock County, settled in 1762 and incorporated on June 27, 1792 as the town of Buckstown from Buckstown Plantation. Its name was changed to Bucksport on June 12, 1817.
Northeast Historic Film is a moving image archives, and research and education center located in the historic Alamo Theater on Main Street. It maintains Maine's earliest television material, home movies produced in the early 1900's, silent films and other archival moving images.
Colonel Jonathan Buck, namesake of the town, brought with him a legend and a tourist attraction. Allegedly charged with executing a woman condemned as a witch, Buck, so the story goes, was on the receiving end of a curse. The hex, some claimed, was responsible for a leg appearing on his granite monument after his death. Several efforts to erase the image have been to no avail since it reappears thereafter, apparently a defect in the stone.
Jed Prouty's Tavern, still in operation, was a stage stop for the Bangor to Castine route in the summer.
The Champion paper mill (formerly St. Regis) dominates the north end of town and sits across the Penobscot River from Fort Knox.
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Jun 22, 2007 7:54 PMJonathan Buck was a patriot during the American Revolution and was not cursed by a witch.This is a myth . The witch hysteria that gripped New England was in the late 1600's and well over in the colonial period.