Stockton Springs is a town in Waldo County, Maine. The town was incorporated on March 13, 1857 from a portion of Prospect. Originally named for an English seaport, the name was changed to Stockton Springs on February 5, 1889, with a view toward capitalizing on the bottling of its local spring water, an idea that was shelved after sediment was discovered in the bottles.
Fort Point, in Stockton Springs, is a peninsula on Cape Jellison just north of Sears Island, extending nearly to the center of Penobscot Bay at its northern end. Here, Governor Pownall built a fort in 1759, named for him. The British burned the fort in 1775, and again in 1779, to prevent it from falling into American patriot hands.
The town is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 1, east to Bucksport, and 1A, north to Bangor.
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