Penobscot River
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The Penobscot River is a 109-mile-long river in the U.S. state of Maine. Including the river's West Branch and South Branch increases the Penobscot's length to 264 miles, making it the second-longest
Panorama of the West Branch Penobscot River near Abol Falls, Maine
Bucksport Harbor, about 1905
View near Winterport about 1906
The Penobscot at Bangor, Maine
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The Penobscot are an Indigenous people in North America from the Northeastern Woodlands region. They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine.
Penobscot River
…where it becomes navigable. Also at Bangor is the tributary Kenduskeag Stream. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Penobscot Bay. It is home to the Penobscot people who live on Indian Island, and considered to be their lifeblood. From a sketch he made of what he called the "Riviere de Norenbegue" the river has been…
Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation
Portrait of Sarah Molasses, c.1886 by Anna Eliza Hardy, featuring the daughter of John Neptune and Molly Molasses, formerly in the collection of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, transferred to the American collection of the Harvard Art Museum in 2024
Indian Island, 1919
Penobscot beaded moccasins, American Museum of Natural History