Bucksport

The new Penobscot Narrows Bridge, spanning the Penobscot River, welcomes visitors to Bucksport, a town founded in 1763 by Jonathan Buck. A Puritan, Buck hated witchcraft and sentenced to death a local woman thought to be a witch. Legend has it that before she was hanged, she cast a curse upon him, saying that he would never escape her presence, even in his grave.

Buck died in 1795 and was buried in a cemetery east of Bucksport. A monument to honor the founder of the town was erected at the gravesite in 1852. As the monument weathered, an image in the shape of a woman's leg began to form under his name. You can see her leg on his stone to this day.