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Norridgewock is located at (44.715907, −69.791083 [ 2 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 11.2 square miles (29.0 km 2 ), of which 10.7 square miles (27.8 km 2 ) is land and 0.5 square mile (1.2 km 2 ) (4.20%) is water.
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 ...
Settled by English colonists about 1773, the land would be surveyed in 1791. In 1775, Benedict Arnold and his troops would march through Norridgewock Plantation, as it was known, on their way to the ill-fated Battle of Quebec. [5] The town had originally been settled under the name "Norridgewock Falls."
Norridgewock is a corruption of the word Nanrantsouak, meaning "people of the still water between the rapids." [citation needed] Their principal village, also called Norridgewock, was located near on a plateau within a broad bend of the Kennebec River, opposite its confluence with the Sandy
Strong is located above a bend in the Sandy River, a tributary of the Kennebec River. The town borders the towns of New Vineyard to the east, Farmington to the south, and Temple and Avon to the west, and Freeman Township to the north. Strong is crossed by state routes 4, 145, 149 and 234.
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Norridgewock, Maine (1 C, 7 P) P. ... Pages in category "Towns in Somerset County, Maine" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in ...