Bangor is the county seat of Penobscot County, and as of 2006, is Maine's third largest city with a population of 31,008. The city is located on the Penobscot River and is the largest market town, distribution center, transportation hub and media center in a five-county (Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock, Aroostook, Washington) area of 324,000 people. Across the Penobscot River lies the city of Brewer. Other neighboring towns include Hampden, Orono, Old Town, Hermon, Veazie and Glenburn...

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Belfast is a quaint, coastal community on the rocky Atlantic shore of mid-coast Maine and home to 6,381 residents. This seaport village lies at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River on Penobscot Bay. Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County which has an approximate population of 36,000 people, spread over 730 square miles. Other nearby towns include Searsport, Winterport, Lincolnville, Bayside and Stockton Springs, most having a population density of fewer than 100 people per square mile. Belfast’s population density is 200 people per square mile...

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Some history books claim that Ellsworth was originally inhabited by members of the Passamaquoddy Indians and the Penobscot Indians. Modern historians claim that Norsemen and possibly other sailors explored the coast before the time of Columbus and may have settled there. However, the earliest recorded European settlers in this area were the French, perhaps as early as the 1500s. Of course, the British followed and throughout the seventeenth century and part of the...

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