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Kennebunk / ˈ k ɛ n i ˌ b ʌ ŋ k / is a town in York County, Maine, United States.The population was 11,536 at the 2020 census. [4] Kennebunk is home to several beaches, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, the 1799 Kennebunk Inn, many historic shipbuilders' homes, the Brick Store Museum and the Nature Conservancy Kennebunk Plains (known locally as the Blueberry Plains), with 1,500 ...
Kennebunk is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the central village in the town of Kennebunk in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,214 at the 2010 census, out of a total town population of 10,798. [2] It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
West Kennebunk is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Kennebunk in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,176 at the 2010 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Portland – South Portland – Biddeford , Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Like much of the northeast coast, the geography of the southern Maine coast was largely directed by the retreat of the Laurentide ice cap about 23,000 years ago. [8] The coast is framed by bedrock, left during the formation of the Appalachian mountains, and the irregular shape of the coast (characteristic of much of the New England coast, with the exception of Cape Cod and the islands) is ...
Archeological evidence exists of activity in the area now known as Cape Porpoise 7000 years ago. [2] In 1602, the time of contact with Europeans, it was occupied by communities of the Almouchiquois people, who referred to the area as Nampscoscocke and had settlements at Gooch's Beach and Great Hill in Kennebunk 3 miles south of Cape Porpoise. [3]
York County was permanently established in 1639. Several of Maine's earliest colonial settlements are found in the county, which is the state's oldest and one of the oldest in the United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 211,972, [2] making it Maine's second-most populous county.
Goose Rocks Beach (formerly known as "Beachwood"), is a public beach located in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine United States, bordered by Cape Porpoise, Maine (another neighborhood of Kennebunkport) to the southwest, and Granite Point (a coastal neighborhood of Biddeford, Maine ) to the northeast. The village is inhabited mainly by summer ...
The Kennebec Valley is a region of the U.S. state of Maine, consisting of the Somerset, Kennebec, and Androscoggin Counties. The area formed as a result of the Wisconsin Glaciation . Notes