Brooksville is a town on Penobscot Bay in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

In the centuries prior to European settler colonists arrival, Native Americans of the Wabanaki confederation lived in the region.

According to the Brooksville Historical Society there is a story, difficult to confirm, that Englishmen massacred a Wabanaki village at Walker Pond some time between 1690 and 1704.

Archaeologists found a grave of Native American origin on the northern edge of Walker Pond in 1912, but the date of the burial was not established.

Incorporated on June 13, 1817, the town was formed from parts of Castine, Penobscot and Sedgwick.

It was named Brooksville after Governor John Brooks of Massachusetts, who then governed Maine.

Buck's Harbor, safe and deep, is one of the best coves in the region for small boats, and many residents became involved in the coasting trade and fisheries.

A small packet, the Goldenrod, ferried passengers from Brooksville to Castine and there was a pier to the south where the Belfast boat berthed.

[1] Brooksville is bounded on the west by Penobscot Bay, on the north and east by the Bagaduce River, a tidal estuary, and on the south by Eggemoggin Reach.

It is nearly an island, with just two slim land bridges to the rest of the mainland, and has 53.75 miles (86.50 km) of shoreline.