Bucksport
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For centuries, the Bucksport Bay Area has called to visitors from near and far, enticing them to visit—and often, to stay. Many local families can date their ancestors’ arrival here to the early 18th and 19th centuries. They came for the deep-water port, for the forests and lakes, for the hunting and fishing, for the fresh air; they came for adventure, opportunity, exploration. More modern visitors, from other parts of Maine and from all around the globe, have come for these same reasons. They’ve come--and many have stayed--for all these things, and more. This is the country of the pointed firs, “the way life should be,” a place where neighbors greet neighbors at the grocery store, where simple living is juxtaposed against great feats of engineering that are so ever-present, they seem (after a while) to be commonplace. The Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, for example, which spans Bucksport’s bay at the mouth of the Penobscot River, is the tallest occupied structure in Maine and the highest bridge observatory in the world. Standing just upriver from the bridge is Fort Knox (circa 1844), the first fort in Maine made entirely of granite and the only fully casemated fort in the country.
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