ELLSWORTH  , a

city, port of entry and the county seat of Hancock county, Maine, U.S.A., at the head of navigation on the Union river (and about 34 M. from its mouth), about 30 M . S.E. of Bangor . Pop . (1890) 4804; (1900) 4297 (189 foreign-born) ; (1910) 3549• It is served by the Maine Central railway . The fall of the river, about 85 ft. in 2 m., furnishes good water-power, and the city has various manufactures, including lumber, shoes, woollens, sails, carriages and foundry and machine shopproducts, besides a large lumber trade . Shipbuilding was formerly important . There is a large United States fish hatchery here . The city is the port of entry for the Frenchman's Bay customs district, but its foreign trade is unimportant . Ellsworth was first settled in 1763 and for some time was called New Bowdoin; but when it was incorporated as a town in 1800 the present name was adopted in honour of Oliver Ellsworth . A city charter was secured in 1869 .