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The river drains 5,869 square miles (15,200 km 2), and on average discharges 5.893 billion US gallons (22,310,000 m 3) per day into Merrymeeting Bay at a rate of 9,111 cubic feet per second (258.0 m 3 /s). The United States government maintains three river flow gauges on the Kennebec river.
Along the Kennebec River, through Wayman and Flagstaff lakes along the Dead River and Chain of Ponds to Quebec, Canada 44°40′49″N 69°59′18″W / 44.680278°N 69.988333°W / 44.680278; -69.988333 ( Arnold Trail to
The warriors fired again, then fled across the river, leaving 26 dead and 14 wounded. Bomazeen (or Bomaseen), the sachem, who with Sebastien de Villieu had led 250 Abenakis to Durham, New Hampshire on July 18, 1694, for the Oyster River Massacre, was shot fording the Kennebec at a place thereafter called Bomazeen Rips. From a cabin, old Chief ...
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.
The Evergreens is a campground on Ferry Street (Route 201A) in Solon, Maine, on the banks of the Kennebec River.The property has a documented archaeological history, with evidence of human habitation dating back thousands of years.
Norridgewock also had a gristmill and granite works. Built in 1849 and replaced in 1929, the 600-foot (180 m) Norridgewock Covered Bridge across the Kennebec River was the second longest covered bridge in Maine after the 792-foot (241 m) Bangor Covered Bridge, which was built in 1846 across the Penobscot River to Brewer. The Eaton School was ...
The Doubling Point Range Lights are located on the lower Kennebec River, at a point where the normally south-flowing river makes a sharp turn to the east, followed by a turn back to the south. The range lights are set on the north side of the second turn; the first is marked by the Doubling Point Light. The range lights are oriented so that ...
Madockawando and others from Penobscot fought alongside Hertel Portneuf and St. Castin at the Battle of Fort Loyal (May 1690). They were also involved in Raid on Wells (1692). Finally they accompanied Villie in the Raid on Oyster River in 1694. He died during the war in 1697. [10]