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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
The Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) is a 740-mile (1,190 km) marked canoeing route extending from Old Forge, New York, to Fort Kent, Maine. From a four-mile portage between Wrangler on Wrangler Lake and Dallas Plantation on the South Branch, the trail runs about 35 miles (60 km) down the Dead River, to the mouth of Spencer Stream below Grand ...
The wilderness portion of the route through Maine, roughly from Augusta to the Quebec border, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as the "Arnold Trail to Quebec". [78] The Major Reuben Colburn House , which served as Arnold's headquarters, is now a state historic site administered by the non-profit Arnold Expedition ...
Map of Maine's counties. There are approximately 1,600 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maine.Each of the state's 16 counties has more than forty listings on the National Register.
The Kennebec River (Abenaki: Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ) is a 170-mile-long (270 km) [1] river within the U.S. state of Maine. It rises in Moosehead Lake in west-central Maine . The East and West Outlets join at Indian Pond and the river flows southward.
Mount Blue is a mountain 3,187 ft (971.4 m), in Franklin County, western Maine. To the south and west it drains into the Androscoggin River Valley, while the north and east slopes drain toward the Sandy River in the Kennebec River Valley. The summit and much of the trail are in the town of Avon, while the lower part of the trail is in Weld. [3]
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) kiosk at the trailhead and parking lot of Thorne Head Preserve. There is evidence [4] that Thorne Head has been occupied and utilized since the Abenaki traded along the river and gathered wild rice there and was known to European settlers as early as 1605, [5] when George Waymouth entered the Kennebec River with 'some noblemen of England' and 'traversed as ...
The Sandy River is a 73.3-mile-long (118.0 km) [2] tributary of the Kennebec River in the U.S. state of Maine. The Sandy River originates in the Sandy River Ponds ( 44°53′37″N 70°32′26″W / 44.8937°N 70.5406°W / 44.8937; -70.5406 ( Sandy River source ) ) at an elevation of 1,700 feet (520 m) in Sandy River Plantation