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5 unusual facts about Penobscot Bay


Bagaduce Music Lending Library

Established in 1983 in a garage, the library outgrew its original home on Penobscot Bay near the Bagaduce River.

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

A southern extension was completed in 1905 through Northern Maine Junction to Searsport on Penobscot Bay.

Fitz Henry Lane

Lane's career would ultimately find him painting harbor and ship portraits, along with the occasional purely pastoral scene, up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, from as far north as the Penobscot Bay/Mount Desert Island region of Maine, to as far south as San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Knox County Regional Airport

During the summer months, the airport is one of Maine's busiest, with significant private jet operations bringing visitors to the numerous summer colonies in the Penobscot Bay region.

Raid on Grand Pré

Departing Boston on 25 May 1704 with 500 provincial militia and some Indian allies, the expedition reached the Minas Basin on 24 June, after raiding smaller settlements at Penobscot Bay and Passamaquoddy Bay.



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Bidu Sayão

She returned to visit Brazil a last time in 1995, for a tribute to her during the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and died a few years later at the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine.

Norumbega

In 1886 Joseph Stearns, the inventor of the duplex telegraphy system, built a mansion named "Norumbega Castle", which still stands on US Route 1 in Camden, Maine, overlooking Penobscot Bay.

Owls Head

Owls Head, Maine, United States, a town in Knox County on Penobscot Bay