Colonel Jonathan Buck, founder of Bucksport, died on March 13, 1798, and nearly sixty years later his descendants erected a Blue Hill granite memorial to him. After the memorial was placed, an outline of a leg appeared on the stone and gave rise to many legendary stories, most sharing claims that Buck had condemned a woman for witchcraft and ordered her burned for sorcery, that she cursed him before dying, and that her deformed son took her fallen leg and fled into the wilderness. The supposed curse was said to have been forgotten until the memorial was erected and the leg shape appeared, and attempts to remove the sign were said to fail. Historians point out that the era of Colonial witchcraft and the Massachusetts witch trials had ended long before Jonathan Buck was born, and there is no record of anyone being executed for witchcraft in Maine. The memorial has not been replaced and remains the original stone. Stone cutters say such a stain is not unusual in granite after cutting and polishing, and although the outline can be removed, it reappears when air oxidizes the iron. The known facts of Buck's life are that he was an honorable and industrious man who founded the community and led its early development by building the first saw mill, the first grist mills, and the first boat, and the story of a witch's curse was unknown before the flaw appeared.