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(The Kennebec River was also a border for the indigenous Native Americans and First Nations. [7]) To secure its claim, New France established Catholic missions in the three largest native villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River (Norridgewock); one further north on the Penobscot River , and one on the Saint John River . [8] [9] Abenaki ...
A second site called Tracy Farm is located about 500 metres (1,600 ft) north of the confluence of the Sandy and Kennebec Rivers in Starks, on the west side of the Kennebec. This site was first professionally excavated in 1983, with finds matching historical descriptions of very early references to Norridgewock.
Newport is a home rule-class city [6] at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 14,150 at the 2020 census. Historically, it was one of four county seats of Campbell County. [7] Newport is a major urban center of Northern Kentucky and is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
The district is located near Solon, along the banks of the Kennebec River in the general vicinity of Caratunk Falls (now the site of a dam which impounds the Kennebec River Reservoir). The area has a relatively thin layer of archaeological deposits in a forested environment and was estimated in the 1980s to cover 16 acres (6.5 ha), although its ...
Popham Beach is a sandy beach in Maine that extends southwest about three miles from Fort Popham, at the mouth of the Kennebec River, toward the mouth of the Morse River. [1] It is near the site of the short-lived Popham Colony , founded in 1607 and abandoned the following year.
Newport was designated as the county seat until 1823, when it was moved to Visalia, at that time closer to the geographical center of the county. This was an unpopular action, however, as the overwhelming majority of residents lived in the north, along the Ohio River. The county court returned to Newport in 1824 and remained there until 1840.
The Cushnoc Archeological Site, also known as Cushnoc (ME 021.02) or Koussinoc [3] or Coussinoc, is an archaeological site in Augusta, Maine that was the location of a 17th-century trading post operated by English colonists from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. The trading post was built in 1628 and lies on the Kennebec River.
The Hodgdon Site, designated the Maine Archeological Survey Site 69.4, is a prehistoric rock art site near Embden, Maine.The site is located on a ledge overlooking the Kennebec River, in territory that was under the control of the Norridgewock tribe around the time of European contact, and is several miles downriver from the historic Norridgewock village. [2]