Bar Harbor, Brooklin, Brooksville, Hancock, Lamoine, Mount Desert, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Sorrento and Sullivan were also noted as having either significant fishing activity or a significant number of people who fish.

The Penobscot people long inhabited the area around present-day Bangor, and still occupy tribal land on the nearby Penobscot Indian Island Reservation.

This process, which would begin in Frankfort, would end with the founding of Bangor, Brewer, Orono, Old Town and other inland settlements, and the eventual restriction of the Penobscot people to their major village at " Indian Old Town ", or the present Penobscot Indian Reservation.

There's a tradition in Maine of " bean hole " cooking, which may have originated with the native Penobscot people and was later practiced in logging camps.

The Penobscot ( Panawahpskek ) are a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.

The Penobscot Tribe of Maine is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot people in the United States.

Little is known about the Penobscot people pre-contact.

Penobscot people historically spoke a dialect of Eastern Abenaki, an Algonquian language.

With the arrival of the French colonists, many Penobscot people converted to Christianity.

It is home to the Penobscot people that live on Indian Island.

A few years later French Jesuit priests came among the Penobscot people as missionaries and converted them to Catholicism.

The French settlement of Pentagouet, now Castine, was founded at the point where the river becomes Penobscot Bay, and the Penobscot people made a permanent settlement at Indian Old Town, Maine on an island above the head of navigation, around the Catholic mission.

In 1669, the Mohawk tribe made raids from the west that were very destructive to the Penobscot people.

His oldest son, Joshua Treat, Jr., built a log house and sawmill at Marsh Bay in what is now Frankfort, and other members of their extended family, joined by additional settlers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, pushed ever further up-river, eventually restricting the Penobscot people to Indian Old Town, Maine, the present Penobscot Indian Reservation.

According to nepahdtv. com, this move was met with some dismay from viewers in areas where reception of signals from Penobscot Knob is difficult if not impossible, leaving many people in rural areas without their signal.

The people living there at the time are generally considered to be ancestors of the Penobscot.

The Penobscot people are a Native American nation.

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Specifically, according to the Penobscot Indians, Pamola inhabited Mt.

He also burned another island, infuriating the Penobscot Indians who hunted and fished in the area for their livelihood.

The population of the five-county area ( Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock, Aroostook, and Washington ) for which Bangor is the largest market town, distribution center, transportation hub, and media center, tops 330, 000.

To open the Penobscot River area to settlement, the governor selected Fort Point in Stockton Springs to build a breastwork and blockhouse.

Flush with success, Pownall proposed to General Jeffery Amherst the idea of establishing a fort on Penobscot Bay to contest potential French movements in the area.

The dominion was ultimately a failure because the area it encompassed ( from the Delaware River in the south to Penobscot Bay in the north ), composed of present-day Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, was too large for a single governor to manage.

Named after the major river that feeds it, this bay area forms part of the traditional homeland of the Wabanaki Indians, in particular the Penobscot tribe ( also named after this river ).

Gluskabe created the first humans from the mud of the banks of the biggest, longest river in the area, the Penobscot River.

Toddy Pond forms part of the boundary between Surry and Penobscot, and on the line between Surry and Ellsworth are the two Patten ponds whose outlet is Patten Stream.

It is located at 45. 290347 ,-68. 663177 ), between the towns of Argyle and Howland along Penobscot County Road 116 paralleling U. S. Route 2 ( with the Penobscot River in between them ).

The Dominion of New England was imposed as a unifying government on the colonies between the Delaware River and Penobscot Bay by King James II in the 1680s, and was dissolved in 1689.

Deciding to strike at the long-disputed borderland between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Penobscot River, Sherbrooke led an expeditionary force that August which successfully landed at Castine and proceeded to subdue the entire region between the Penobscot and the St Croix.

US Route 1A is carried across the Penobscot River between Bangor and Brewer, Maine by the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge, a four lane steel plate girder bridge opened in 1959.

From the seacoast, it extended northerly between Penobscot Bay and Penobscot River on the east, and the Muscongus River on the west, to the line that constitutes the southern boundary of the towns Hampden, Newburgh and Dixmont.

* Sunbury County, Nova Scotia ( 1765-1784 ); the portion of it between the rivers Penobscot and Saint ( e ) Croix was lost to US independence

The word means " rocky part " or " descending ledges " and originally referred to the portion of the Penobscot River between Old Town and Bangor.

in order to settle disputes between the state and the Penobscot or Passamaquoddy.

It is on the drainage divide between the East and West branches of the Penobscot River and is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.

* 1616-20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.

As established, the grant ran all the way from the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean, between the Kennebec and St. Croix rivers, and produced what today is most of Aroostook, Piscataquis, Washington, Hancock, Penobscot, Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, Kennebec, Somerset, and Sagadahoc Counties.

The county existed from 1674 to 1675, and encompassed land claimed by Massachusetts between the Kennebec River and Penobscot Bay in what is now Maine.

In September 1778, Nutting left for New York carrying orders for Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton to assist with the establishment of " a province between the Penobscot and St. Croix rivers.

On June 16, his forces began landing on a peninsula that was then called Majabigwaduce ( now Castine ), between the mouth of the Bagaduce River and a finger of the bay leading to the Penobscot River.