Kennebec County, ME
History
Kennebec County is the fourth largest in population of the sixteen counties, located in central Maine and bisected by the Kennebec River. It was formed on February 20, 1799 from the northern part of Lincoln County. It lost a large part of its original northern portion when Somerset County was created on June 1, 1809. At least eighteen exchanges of towns and boundaries occurred during the rest of the 19th century. See an 1856 map of the county in the Map Cabinet.Since then the county roster of municipalities has remained stable, consisting of the following: the cities of Augusta, Gardiner, Hallowell, Waterville, and Winslow; and the towns of Albion, Belgrade, Benton, Chelsea, China, Clinton, Farmingdale, Fayette, Litchfield, Manchester, Monmouth, Mount Vernon, Oakland, Pittston, Randolph, Readfield, Rome, Sidney, Vassalboro, Vienna, Wayne, West Gardiner, Windsor, and Winthrop.
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