Sandy Point is an

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village in the town of

Stockton Springs Stockton Springs is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,533 at the 2020 census. Stockton Springs is home to Fort Point State Park and Fort Point Light, both located on Fort Point, a peninsula on Cape Jellison. H ...

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, United States. The community is located along

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on the west bank of the

Penobscot River The Penobscot River (Abenaki: ''Pαnawάhpskewtəkʷ'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 22, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Maine. Including the river's We ...

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, south of Bucksport. Sandy Point has a

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with ZIP code 04972, which opened on January 1, 1795.

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