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Wilson Hall is a historic Methodist seminary building on Franklin Street in Bucksport, Maine. Built in 1850-51 by the Eastern Maine Methodist Conference, it housed East Maine Conference Seminary, which was the only Methodist seminary in eastern Maine, and was the only seminary in Hancock County. Of the two surviving buildings of the seminary, this is the finest, a handsome Greek Revival structure that is a distinctive local landmark. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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Bucksport High School is a public high school in Bucksport, Maine, United States. It is part of Regional School Unit (RSU) 25. Between 350 and 400 students study at Bucksport High School. It also provides a satellite program on campus for Hancock County Technical Center.
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Raymond Fellows, of Bucksport, Maine, was a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from May 1, 1946, to September 15, 1956, serving as chief justice from April 7, 1954, to September 15, 1956.
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- ↑ "East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, ca. 1910". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ↑ "Nicole K. Staples, "Bucksport, Maine History"". Archived from the original on April 14, 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2008.
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