Lumber from Buck's operation even went into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Carl Darling Buck (October 2, 1866 – February 8, 1955), born in Bucksport, Maine, was an American philologist.
Charles Whitney Coombs (1859, Bucksport, Maine – 1940, Montclair, New Jersey) was an American composer and organist.
Maine Central Eastern Division branch line trains to Calais, Bar Harbor, or Bucksport required backing moves to cross the Penobscot River bridge approach upstream of the station.
It operates three paper mills in the U.S., located in Jay, Maine; Bucksport, Maine; and Quinnesec, Michigan.