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.

Colonel Jonathan Buck and a number of the grantees arrived in 1762 to survey the land, then returned to Haverhill.

[4] Legend has it that Buck burned his mistress for being a witch, and that she promised to return and seek vengeance on the town.

On April 14, 1779, the stronghold became the site of a major American naval defeat called the Penobscot Expedition.

Its crew burned the town, sparing only those remaining inhabitants who swore allegiance to the Crown.

In 1892, a circus elephant named Charlie broke loose and roamed the town a free animal.

[citation needed] On the evening of October 13, 1876, a triple homicide took place, leaving an old man named Robert Trim, his 32-year-old daughter Melissa Thayer, and Thayer's 4-year-old daughter Josie murdered and their family farm burned to the ground.

The authorities soon arrested a sea captain despite the lack of witnesses, evidence or motive, and his trial was one of the biggest the young state had ever seen.

A woman named Sarah Ware went missing on the evening of September 17, and her beheaded and badly decomposed body was discovered by a search party two weeks later near Miles Lane.

A man named William Treworgy was eventually tried for the murder but was acquitted, and the case was never solved.

[9] Bucksport is depicted in the 1960s ABC television series Dark Shadows, as located near the fictional town of Collinsport.

Other industries produced lumber, ships' pumps, blocks, plugs, wedges and wheels, boats, barrels, carriages, leather, boots and shoes and stone work.

On October 1, 2014, it was announced by Verso that they would be closing the mill, effective on December 1, laying off 570 workers.

Whole Oceans expects to break ground in Fall of 2018 and reach a capacity of 25,000 tons of salmon within fifteen years.

It borders the towns of Orrington and Holden to the north, Dedham and Orland to the east, and (separated by the Penobscot River) Verona to the south, and Prospect, Frankfort and Winterport to the west.