Buckman Tavern, Falmouth Vanishing Maine 64 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine you don’t know much about, you’re left to your imagination,” David Fiske says. We share a need to trespass, to open that creak- ing, rusty door. Fiske, the author of For- gotten on the Kennebec: Abandoned Places and Quirky People, manages the Facebook group Abandoned Maine. “You can go to some old house, and it spurs the imagina- tion. These people had high hopes when they built these buildings. Looking at them now, it’s poignant.” Buckman Tavern, Falmouth- Middle Road once boasted a busy inn called Buckman Tavern. “It was built in 1776 by Samuel Buckman,” Ann Gagnon at Falmouth Historical Society says. “The tavern was a stop along the King’s High- way that ran between Portsmouth and Ban- gor. The stagecoach stops were usually nine miles apart, and it’d take about a full day to travel.” The inn has inspired tales of terror, in- cluding the story of an insane guest who murdered his traveling companion. As leg-