Places of Interest in the Bucksport Area

Date1989

Can DescriptionsDated Spring 1989. Student film of Bucksport sites of historical and other interest. Old postcards showing Bucksport Main Street, bridge, boy pumping water, old buildings, railroad, church, Main Street again. Pan of coastal Bucksport, LS of Champion Paper Mill. Zoom into Fort Know. Road. Pan of bay. LS of bridge. Champion. Veteran's Memorial plaque, library plaque. Jed Prouty Tavern and Inn sign. Ducks in water. Bridge. Fort Knox. Ship. Clock. Church spire. Pan of bay. Ducks. Fort Knox. Students begin narrating Bucksport history. Bucks Memorial Library, including Buck family portraits, furniture, books, grandfather clock, woodwork, children's story hour. Bucksport on map. Jonathan Buck grave. Cemetery. Buck house. Bucksport Historical Society interior and exterior, including art, antique dolls, furniture. Linwood cottage. Jed Prouty Tavern and Inn. Bliss Blodgett home. Still photos of Salmon Point Tannery, Franklin Street Tannery, Eastern Maine Conference Seminary (and the senior citizens apartments on the site today). School sequence including 5th grade class, one-room schoolhouse on Route 46 and interview of former student, Mirren School, Jewett School, Bucksport Jr. High School, Bucksport High School (painting or drawing). Site of planned K-3 school. Fort Knox sequence including closeups of all areas, cannons. Sequence on former shipyard including paintings of ships, still photos of the Roosevelt (the ship used on Peary's North Pole expedition). Boats in bay today. Champion Paper Mill sequence including student demonstration of hand papermaking, tour of mill and papermaking process. Water supply sequence including Toddy Pond, Alamoosook Lake, Silver Lake, dam.