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Kennebec River |
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Kennebec RiverRiver, west-central Maine, U.S. It rises from Moosehead Lake and flows south for about 150 mi (240 km) to the Atlantic Ocean. It was explored by Samuel de Champlain in 1604–05. With its main tributary, the Androscoggin River, it forms Merrymeeting Bay, which extends 16 mi (26 km) to the Atlantic. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These are the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers in Maine, the Merrimack River that runs through Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Adirondack Mountains in New York, and central Nova Scotia. The Littlest Tugboat is a cheerful children's book about a family of tugboats that works hard to guide ships up and down the Kennebec River. In early 1754, claiming he had intelligence reports of French encroachments along Ohio's Kennebec River, Shirley recruited an expeditionary force to repel what he described as a threat to the "security of [British] colonies of New England. |
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