Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Ellsworth, ME

Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, with a population of 8,399 at the 2020 census and 3,680 households.

Ellsworth is named for Oliver Ellsworth, a Connecticut delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and later the third Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The area was settled around 1763 by English settlers led by Benjamin Milliken and Benjamin Joy, who built dams and sawmills on the Union River, and it was incorporated as a town on February 26, 1800.

Ellsworth became the county seat of Hancock County in 1838, replacing Castine, and it was incorporated as a city on February 8, 1869.

By 1859 Ellsworth had grown into a significant industrial center with nine sawmills, thirteen shipbuilders, eight brickyards, and five pail factories, and schooners were built in its shipyards along the Union River.

Ellsworth sent 653 soldiers to fight in the Civil War between 1860 and 1865, at a time when there were only 847 male voters in the area.

The Great Flood of 1923 washed away the metal Union River Bridge and many buildings along the river, ending Ellsworth's prominence as a shipping center, and the present concrete bridge was finished in 1924.

The Great Fire of 1933 destroyed most of Ellsworth's downtown commercial district, which was rebuilt in brick, mainly in Art Deco style, including the Ellsworth City Hall of 1935.

The Ellsworth American newspaper has operated in the city since 1851, and The Grand, a historic theater on Main Street, still lights up downtown Ellsworth at dusk.

The Colonel John Black House, built from 1824 to 1827 after a pattern book design by Asher Benjamin, is now part of the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth.