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England's 1710 conquest of Acadia brought mainland Nova Scotia under English control, but New France still claimed present-day New Brunswick and present-day Maine east of the Kennebec River. (The Kennebec River was also a border for the indigenous Native Americans and First Nations. [7]) To secure its claim, New France established Catholic ...
From there, they would use shallow-draft river boats called bateaux to continue up the Kennebec River, cross the height of land to Lake Mégantic, and descend the Chaudière River to Quebec. [9] Arnold expected to cover the 180 miles (290 km) from Fort Western to Quebec in 20 days, [10] despite the fact that little was known about the route. [9]
The Kennebecasis River (/ k ɛ n ə b ə ˈ k eɪ s ɪ s / ken-ə-bə-KAY-sis) is a tributary of the Saint John River in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The name Kennebecasis is thought to be derived from the Mi'kmaq " Kenepekachiachk ", meaning "little long bay place."
Phippsburg is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States, on the west side of the mouth of the Kennebec River.The population was 2,155 at the 2020 census. [2] It is within the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine, metropolitan statistical area.
The Androscoggin River (Abenaki: Ammoscongon) [6] is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England. It is 178 miles (286 km) [7] long and joins the Kennebec River at Merrymeeting Bay in Maine before its water empties into the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic Ocean. Its drainage basin is 3,530 square miles (9,100 km ...
The French claimed that the Kennebec River formed the border between Acadia and New England, seen here on a map of Maine. Explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano is credited for originating the designation Acadia on his 16th-century map, where he applied the ancient Greek name "Arcadia" to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia. [10] "
The New England water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
It was established in 1607 by the proprietary Plymouth Company and was located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine, near the mouth of the Kennebec River. It was founded a few months after its more successful rival, the colony at Jamestown. The Popham Colony was the second colony in the region that would eventually become known as New ...