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Kennebec River
The Kennebec River is a 〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed June 30, 2011〕 river that is entirely 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 then flows southward from Harris Station Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in the state. It is joined at The Forks by the Dead River, also called the West Branch,〔John F. Hall, ''The Upper Kennebec Valley'', p. 7. The main stem from Indian Pond was sometimes called the East Branch.〕 then continues southward past the cities of Madison, Skowhegan, Waterville, and the state capital Augusta. At Richmond, it flows into Merrymeeting Bay, a freshwater tidal bay into which also flow the Androscoggin River and five smaller rivers. The Kennebec then runs past the shipbuilding center of Bath, thence to the Gulf of Maine in the Atlantic Ocean. Ocean tides affect the river height as far north as Augusta. Tributaries of the Kennebec River include the Carrabassett River, Sandy River, and Sebasticook River.
The name "Kennebec" comes from the Eastern Abenaki ''/kínipekʷ/'', meaning "large body of still water, large bay".
==History==
The Abenaki village of Norridgewock was located on the Kennebec in the 1600s.
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