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History · Bucksport

Bucksport’s post office opened in 1888

Most of Bucksport was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995.

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0on the National Register
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How Bucksport began

When was Bucksport founded?

1888

The Bucksport post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Port Harrelson (1875) and Eddy Lake (1906), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 745138 years
Founding year: the first Bucksport post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Bucksport’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Bucksport are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Bucksport, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bucksport’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Bucksport had its own post office from 1888 to 1954. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Port Harrelson
1875–1916
Bucksport
1888–1954
Eddy Lake
1906–1914
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Eddy LakeKlondikePort Harrelson
Gone or out of use
Bucksport Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Bucksport came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Bucksport.

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Henry Buck of Bucksport, Maine, moved to South Carolina in the 1820s to start lumber mills; Horry County had a significant timber industry with its cypress, pine and hardwood forests. One of Buck's mills was in what became Bucksport. Sawmills in Bucksport and Bucksville produced three million board feet of lumber annually by 1850. Buck used his ships to transport lumber to Georgetown and Charleston in South Carolina and as far away as New York City and Boston, and even to other countries. Lumber from Buck's operation even went into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Independent Republic Quarterly said, "By 1860, due largely to Bucksville and Bucksport, Horry District had become one of the five greatest timber-producing districts in the state."

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Timeline

Bucksport, 1875 to 1954

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875Post officeThe Port Harrelson post office opens
  3. 1888Post officeThe Bucksport post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1906Post officeThe Eddy Lake post office opens
  6. 1914Post officeThe Eddy Lake post office closes
  7. 1916Post officeThe Port Harrelson post office closes
  8. 1954Post officeThe Bucksport post office closes
By decade

Bucksport, decade by decade

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Untitled photo2018Untitled photoUntitled photo2018Untitled photoBucksport 03192006Bucksport 0319SCMap-doton-Bucksport2004SCMap-doton-Bucksport
Famous people

Famous people close to Bucksport

Nobody well known was born in Bucksport itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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William GibsonAmerican-Canadian speculative fiction writer · b. 1948
Chris RockAmerican comedian, actor and filmmaker · b. 1965
Madison IsemanAmerican actress · b. 1997
Scott BessentUnited States Secretary of the Treasury · b. 1962
Melissa Jefferson-WoodenAmerican athlete · b. 2001
Ramon SessionsAmerican basketball player · b. 1986

Questions about Bucksport’s history

What year was Bucksport founded?

The Bucksport post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.