The Napanee River is a river in
Lennox and Addington County and
Frontenac County in
Eastern Ontario, Canada.
It is in the
Great Lakes Basin and flows from its source at Camden Lake to its mouth at the
Bay of Quinte on
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border sp ...
at
Napanee. It flows through a valley of
preglacial origin. The valley of the Napanee is lined with settlements such as
Greater Napanee
Greater Napanee is a town in southeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately west of Kingston and the county seat of Lennox and Addington County. It is located on the eastern end of the Bay of Quinte. Greater Napanee municipality was created by am ...
,
Newburgh,
Camden East
Camden East is a village in the Municipality of Stone Mills, located east of Greater Napanee in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
History
In 1800, one of the first settlers was Albert Williams, the son of a United Empire Loyalist fa ...
,
Yarker
John Yarker (17 April 1833 – 20 March 1913) was an England, English List of Freemasons, Freemason, author, and occultist. He was born in Swindale, Shap, Westmorland, in the north of England. He moved with his parents to Lancashire and on to ...
, and
Petworth
Petworth is a small town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Chichester (district), Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the junction of the A272 road, A272 east–west road from Heathfield, East Sussex ...
.
This river was originally called the Appanea.
A
grist mill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...
was constructed on the river in 1785 near the current site of the town of Greater Napanee. Other mills were added at Yarker and Camden East.
Tributaries
*Varty Creek (right)
*Napanee Lake
**Watson Creek (left)
**Hardwood Creek (left)
*
Depot Creek (left)
*Whitman Creek (left)
*Carman Creek (left)
See also
*
List of Ontario rivers
References
Sources
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Rivers of Frontenac County
Rivers of Lennox and Addington County
Tributaries of Lake Ontario
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