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Clerk of the Works
Behind the Town Office at Routes 199 and 175 is the wide expanse of
the Bagaduce
River
where it is called Northern
Bay.
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Donald Wight,
president of the Penobscot Historical Society is an avid
collector of Penobscot antiquities. He shows off an
1860s-vintage map of Hancock
County
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Bing Gross: “Mr. Penobscot”
Arnold “Bing” Gross was in the Penobscot Town Office Friday morning,
as he often is, although office hours are only Mondays and Thursdays
and Tuesday evenings. Dressed in old but comfortable clothes, Gross
occupied the back room of the building with its maps, a photocopier
and, stacked on shelves in a recess, manuals that direct town
officials how to do public business.
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Yesterday |
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 Makers
of Brick, Catchers of Fish
Penobscot was one of the original townships in 1762, designated
Plantation No. 3. The original name used for the region encompassing
Penobscot was Majorbigwaduce, a Wabenaki word that means either “a
big tidal salt bay” or “at the bad shelter place.”
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Northern Bay Market: “It’s Been a
Store Forever”
The casual customer in the Northern Bay Market would not think that
James Henry is anywhere near retirement age.
But 18 years ago, Henry bought the Blodgett Store so that he might
someday retire from teaching at the Penobscot
Elementary School.
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Go
Figure |
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Acreage:
30,737
Population, 2000: 1,344
Population, 1990: 1,131
Median Age: 44.6
Year-Round/Seasonal Residences, 2000: 568/155
Year-Round/Seasonal Residences, 1990: 444/134
Town office: Monday 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5
p.m.; Tuesday 4 to 8 p.m.; Thursday 9 a.m. to noon and 2
to 5 p.m.
Town Meeting: First Monday in March
School: Penobscot Elementary School
Churches: Baptist 1, Methodist 1
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They
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 “We
just love it here.”
—Marilyn Tapley
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Milestones |
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1761:
First 20 families to be permanent settlers arrive, followed in 1763 by
31 more.
1774 to 1784: More families arrive, establish Majorbagaduce.
1779: English take possession of Majorbagaduce.
1783: American Revolution ends.
1787: Penobscot incorporates .
1790: Hancock
County
is established with Penobscot as county seat.
1795: The Rev.
Jonathan Powers is first settled minister.
1796: Castine becomes separate town and county seat.
1807: Falls Wardwell builds first brickyard.
1809: Jeremiah Wardwell builds first schoolhouse on Perkins
Hill.
1817: Brooksville separates.
1889: Free high school with teacher Arthur Littlefield is
established.
1903: Rural Free Delivery mail service begins.
1912: Clark
High School is organized.
1920: Electricity comes to Penobscot.
1954: Last
Clark
High School
class is graduated.
Written and photographed by John Hubbard.
He can be contacted
at 667-2576.
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