Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Bradley, ME

Bradley is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary village in the town of Bradley, Penobscot County, Maine, in the northwestern corner of the town, bordered to the north by the town of Milford and to the west by the Penobscot River, with the city of Old Town across the river to the northwest and the town of Orono to the west.

Bradley was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census, and the 2020 census recorded 765 residents in the CDP, at a density of 376.1 people per square mile.

The CDP covers 2.11 square miles in total, of which 2.03 square miles is land and 0.077 square miles is water, and it sits at an elevation of 95 feet.

The CDP uses ZIP code 04411 and area code 207, and it is in the Eastern Time Zone.

The surrounding town of Bradley, which had 1,532 residents in the 2020 census, was incorporated as a town in 1834, was named for early settler Bradley Blackman, and had lumbering and sawmilling as its principal industries, with 14 single-saw mills, three gang-saw mills, four clapboard mills, four lath mills, and three shingle mills by the 1850s.

The town's only village in its early days was at Greatworks, on the Penobscot River, where the Great Works Dam stood between Old Town and Bradley; the original dam was built in the 1830s and replaced between 1887 and 1900, and its deconstruction began on June 11, 2012 as part of a project to restore sea-run fish to the Penobscot River.

The town of Bradley is home to the Maine Forest and Logging Museum at Leonard's Mills, founded in 1960 to preserve the history of forestry and logging in Maine, with a living-history site recreating a 1790s logging and milling community around a water-powered up-and-down sawmill.

The CDP had an estimated 360 households according to the labeled 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates, and the town of Bradley is part of the Bangor Metropolitan Statistical Area.