Kennebec is a name of the
Kennebec people
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 tribe of the United States and Canada. The French of New France called the village Ken ...
, a North American native people.
Kennebec may also refer to:
Places
Canada
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Kennebec, an area of Quebec represented in the Senate of Canada
*Kennebec Lake, north of Ardendale in
Central Frontenac Township, Ontario
United States
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Kennebec, South Dakota
Kennebec is a town in and county seat of Lyman County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 281 at the 2020 census.
History
Kennebec was laid out in 1905. Kennebec has served as county seat of Lyman County since 1922. The courthouse d ...
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Kennebec County, Maine
Kennebec County is a county located in the South-central portion of the U.S. state of Maine. At the 2020 census, the population was 123,642. Its county seat is Augusta, the state capital. The county was established on February 20, 1799, from p ...
*Kennebec Pass, a pass through the
La Plata Mountains
The La Plata Mountains are a small subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern part of Colorado, United States. They are located on the border between Montezuma and La Plata counties, about northwest of Durango. Their name is Spani ...
on county road 124 north of
Hesperus, Colorado
Hesperus is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The Hesperus Post Office has the ZIP Code 81326.
A post office called Hesperus has been in operation since 1891. The community takes i ...
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Kennebec River
The Kennebec River (Abenaki language, Abenaki: ''Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 30, 2011 river within the U.S. state of Maine. It ri ...
, Maine
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Kennebec Township, Iowa
Other
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Kennebec potato, a variety of potato
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