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    Norridgewock (Abenaki: Nanrantsouak) was the name of both an Indigenous village and a band of the Abenaki ("People of the Dawn") Native Americans/First...
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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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    four largest Native villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River (Norridgewock), one farther north on the Penobscot River (Penobscot Indian Island Reservation)...
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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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    The Battle of Norridgewock was a raid on the Abenaki settlement of Norridgewock by a group of colonial militiamen from the New England Colonies. Occurring...
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    territory of the Kinipekw (later known as Kennebec) Norridgewock tribe of Abenaki. The Norridgewock village was located on the land now known as Madison...
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    The former Norridgewock Female Academy, now home to the Norridgewock Historical Society, is a historic school property on Mercer Road (United States Route...
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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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    (1849). The History of Norridgewock. Norridgewock ME: Edward J. Peet. p. 10. ISBN 9780665608186. Retrieved March 28, 2011. Norridgewock history. Wiseman, Fred...
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    Sébastien Rale (category People from Norridgewock, Maine)
    at 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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    means "fertile land". During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot River were...
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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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  • 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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    severe defeats, particularly during Dummer's War, with the capture of Norridgewock in 1724 and the defeat of the Pequawket in 1725, which significantly...
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    Orrington – 3,812 Dexter – 3,803 Fryeburg – 3,369 Fort Fairfield – 3,322 Norridgewock – 3,278 Holden – 3,277 Belgrade – 3,250 Newport – 3,133 Mechanic Falls...
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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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    St. Croix, and Penobscot rivers. In the 1600s the Abenaki village of Norridgewock was located along the Kennebec. The English founded the Popham Colony...
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    largest indigenous villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River (Norridgewock); one further north on the Penobscot River (Penobscot) and one on the...
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    Maine, Fort Richmond was attacked in a three-hour siege by warriors from Norridgewock. Houses were burned and cattle slain, but the fort held. Brunswick and...
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    School, in Norridgewock, Maine, also known as Somerset Grange #18, is a historic community building at Main Street and Mercer Road in Norridgewock, Maine...
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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...
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    United 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...
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    trade with the Abenaki, and authorizing a militia expedition against Norridgewock, one of the main Abenaki towns. Relations deteriorated into open warfare...
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    Sharon New Vineyard Newburgh Newcastle Newfield Newport Newry Nobleboro Norridgewock North Hill (Brighton Plantation) North Yarmouth Northport Norway Orland...
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    Portland Norridgewock Palmyra Pittsfield Ripley St. Albans Skowhegan Smithfield Solon Starks Anson Bingham Fairfield Hartland Madison Norridgewock Pittsfield...
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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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    responsible for the death of Father Sébastien Rale in the Battle of Norridgewock. Jacques was the son-in-law of the leader of the expedition Johnson Harmon...
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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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    the Kennebec River in southern Maine. There were Catholic missions at Norridgewock and Penobscot and a French settlement in Penobscot Bay near Castine,...
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    Rebecca Sophia Clarke (category People from Norridgewock, Maine)
    spent 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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