Saturday, December 13, 2008

City of the Day - Bucksport, ME

Bucksport is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,908 at the 2000 census. Bucksport is a historic town across the Penobscot River from Fort Knox and the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, which recently replaced the Waldo-Hancock Bridge. The first inhabitants of Bucksport, were a 5,000 year old Prehistoric Culture known as the Red Paint People, that would later be referred to as the Maritime Archaic. They were thought to be a highly advanced native fishing culture, that buried red paint, in their graves along with stone tools and weapons. The First Archaeological Dig in the State, if not the country was initiated by Professor Charles Willoughby in 1891, on Indian Point, on a site, where the present day mill is located. Once territory of the Tarrantine (now called Penobscot) Abenaki Indians, it was one of six townships granted by the Massachusetts General Court to Deacon David Marsh of Haverhill, Massachusetts and 351 others.

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Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1999 through 2002 shows that customers of Sherwood Forest Mobile Home Pk drank water containing up to 6 pollutants. Sherwood Forest Mobile Home Pk is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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