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Rumford is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. Rumford is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 5,858 at the 2020 census. [2] Rumford is home to both ND Paper Inc's Rumford Mill and the Black Mountain of Maine ski resort.
The Pennacook, also known by the names Penacook and Pennacock, were Algonquian Indigenous people who lived in what is now Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. They were not a united tribe but a network of politically and culturally allied communities. [ 1 ]
The name of the Androscoggin is derived from an anglicization of the Abenaki-language term Ammoscongon, which was the name given for the portion of the Androscoggin River from Lewiston Falls northward, as stated by Pere Pole in 1793. [1]
Pawtuckaway Lake (and mountains): (Abnaki) "falls in the river" or "clear, shallow river" Pemigewasset River: (Abnaki) "extensive rapids" Pennacook : tribal name; "at the foothills" Piscataqua River (Maine border): (Pennacook) "place where the river divides" Piscataquog River: (Abnaki) "place where the river divides"
The Pennacook lived along the Merrimack River in southern New Hampshire. The maritime Abenaki lived around the St. Croix and Wolastoq (Saint John River) Valleys near the boundary line between Maine and New Brunswick. English colonial settlement in New England and frequent violence forced many Abenaki to migrate to Quebec.
Farmers tend expanses of wild blueberries. Maine’s Down East region is where the sunlight first kisses the East Coast of the United States each day, where the vast wilderness and ocean meet in ...
After they were, Passaconaway turned over his guns. In 1648 the English missionary John Eliot reported that he had gone to Pawtucket Falls, met Passaconaway, and preached to him there. According to Eliot, Passaconaway was receptive to his preaching, and invited him to come live with the Pennacook, which Eliot did not do.
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