Rockland, city, seat of Knox County, southern Maine, on Penobscot Bay; settled 1769 as part of Thomaston, incorporated as the city of Rockland 1854. It is a fishing port and a tourist center and has manufacturing industries producing processed food, boats, tools, lime products, and leather goods. Rockland is the birthplace of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and is the site of the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, which houses a collection of American, European, and Asian art. Several historical schooners are based here. Population 7,919 (1980); 7,972 (1990); 7,609 (2000).
