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    Norridgewock is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,278 at the 2020 census. Situated on the New England and Acadia border...
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  • Norridgewock is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Norridgewock in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,351 at the...
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    Norridgewock was the name of both an Indigenous village and a band of the Abenaki ("People of the Dawn") Native Americans/First Nations, an Eastern Algonquian...
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    the Abenaki village of Narantsouak, or Norridgewock, on the Kennebec River; the current town of Norridgewock, Maine developed near there. The village was...
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  • Madison (formerly Norridgewock) is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,726 at the 2020 census. The area was once territory...
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  • Central Maine Airport of Norridgewock (IATA: OWK, ICAO: KOWK, FAA LID: OWK) is a public use airport in Somerset County, Maine, United States. It is owned...
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    in Norridgewock, Maine, also known as Somerset Grange #18, is a historic community building at Main Street and Mercer Road in Norridgewock, Maine. Originally...
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    Sébastien Rale (category People from Norridgewock, Maine)
    Kaskaskia. In 1694, Rale was sent to direct the Abenaki mission at Norridgewock, Maine on the Kennebec River. He made his headquarters there and erected...
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    Maine (/meɪn/ MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States, and the easternmost state. It borders New Hampshire to the...
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    The Norridgewock Free Public Library is the principal public library of Norridgewock, Maine. It has two facilities: the main branch at 40 Mercer Road...
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    reserve, is an enclave within the town of Bécancour. They arrived from Norridgewock, Maine (formerly Acadia) in the aftermath of Father Rale's War. There was...
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    Lucy Taylor [12 children] (134363) Amasa Bixby (1794-1872) born in Norridgewock, Maine; m. Fanny Weston (1794?-1869); [13 children] Llewellyn Bixby (1825-96)...
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  • George L. Parker, an early settler who had come to the area from Norridgewock, Maine. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a...
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    settlement, this region of Maine was the territory of the Kinipekw (later known as Kennebec) Norridgewock tribe of Abenaki. The Norridgewock village was located...
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    States Route 2), just west of its junction with Upper Main Street in Norridgewock, Maine. Its Greek Revival building was built in 1837, when the school was...
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    Charles Henry Sawyer (photographer) (category Painters from Maine)
    States. Charles H. Sawyer was born on March 24, 1868, probably in Norridgewock, Maine, the third son of Henry K. Sawyer, who ran a hotel and livery stable...
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    falls. But during Dummer's War on July 13, 1722, Abenaki warriors from Norridgewock burned the village. Consequently, Governor Samuel Shute declared war...
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    Rebecca Sophia Clarke (category People from Norridgewock, Maine)
    most of her life in her native town of Norridgewock, Maine. Rebecca Sophia Clarke was born in Norridgewock, Maine, to Asa and Sophia Clarke on February...
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    hostility toward British settlements was located further up the Kennebec at Norridgewock. In 1722, the tribe and its allies attacked Fort Richmond (now Richmond)...
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    Plymouth Gore, it was settled in 1794 by Moses Martin and his family from Norridgewock. In 1815, the town was organized as the Plantation of Sebasticook, but...
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    and other provocations, soldiers destroyed the Abenaki stronghold of Norridgewock in 1724. During the French and Indian War, to avenge the fall of Louisbourg...
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    Maine is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1...
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  • killed by a New England force in 1724 at Norridgewock, which led to the collapse of French claims to Maine. During King George's War, members of the...
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    Dummer's War (category Pre-statehood history of Maine)
    : 88, 97  The French built a church in the Abenaki village of Norridgewock in Madison, Maine on the Kennebec River, maintained a mission at Penobscot on...
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  • Daniel W. Ames (category People from Norridgewock, Maine)
    from Maine. Ames, a Republican, represented Portland in the Maine House of Representatives from 1883 to 1886. He was originally from Norridgewock and married...
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    former alignment designated US 201A runs through the towns of Madison and Norridgewock. US 201 follows old river trading routes of the Abenaki people. Parts...
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    Stephen Lindsey (category People from Norridgewock, Maine)
    1878 and served from 1877 to 1883. Stephen D. Lindsey was born in Norridgewock, Maine, on March 3, 1828, the son of schoolteacher Melzar Lindsey and Melinda...
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  • Harold Alfond (category Businesspeople from Maine)
    superintendent. In 1940, Alfond and his father bought a shoe factory in Norridgewock, Maine, and founded Norrwock Shoe Company. They sold the company to Shoe...
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    8 in Norridgewock. The intersection of SR 139 and U.S. Route 2 is notorious for being one of the most dangerous intersections in central Maine. SR 139...
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  • Norwood, Massachusetts, United States OWK KOWK Central Maine Airport of Norridgewock Norridgewock, Maine, United States -OX- OXB GGOV Osvaldo Vieira International...
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