Buck's Mills | Bucksport

Fair warning: this post is quite image - heavy and info-thin.

On the back roads of Bucksport you'll find many charming places past their prime; one such place is the remnants of Buck's mills. Built in the 1700s for laborer housing, turned into a general store some time thereafter, and purchased by the family that currently owns it in 1901, the house overlooks a waterway that once powered three water wheels and provided ice for refrigeration.

Part of one of the original water wheel/dam structures still exists.

Machine piece adjacent to dam. Possible axle component.

By mid century, the building had become a dairy farm. Most of what's left behind is from this period in the property's history.

The foundation of the dairy. Behind it is the remains of the farm workshop.

Cow shit goes in here.

Found inside the remains of the workshop.

A tractor onsite. Note the vice in the foreground.

Unidentified equipment by the open stone well.

Mowing blades overtaken by vegetation.

Within the thicket behind the tractor was all manner of tools with several workbenches and some interesting surprises. The workshop must have been a shack, as there was some remains of a roof, and a door -- but only partial waist-high walls.

A forgotten Motorola television

An 8 track player

Art deco switch.

Remnants of the workshop.

The interior of the building had been mostly gutted as it has been unoccupied since the early 1990s. Evidence of its 1700s era construction remain, as many of the exposed beams were rough hewn and contained pegs.

The owner uses the rooms for storage, mostly.

We found old photos on a chest upstairs, a reminder that when you go into places like these, you're exploring bits and pieces of a strangers life...