Brownville Junction, ME

Brownville Junction is a census-designated place in Brownville, Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The 2020 census counted 506 residents. Brownville Junction is in the west-central part of the town, on the west side of the Pleasant River, a south-flowing tributary of the Piscataquis River and part of the Penobscot River watershed. Maine State Route 11 passes through the community, leading south 3 miles to Brownville village and 7 miles to Milo, and northeast 31 miles to Millinocket. In Brownville Junction, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture.

The map tells the story in Brownville Junction, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. The community came into existence in 1889 when the Canadian Pacific Railway built the International Railway of Maine as part of its transcontinental railroad, connecting Montreal, Quebec, with Saint John, New Brunswick. The railway crossed the older Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railway at the location that became the village.