York River (Maine)

York River (Maine)

The York River is a tidal stream about 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) long in southwest Maine, United States. It rises at York Pond in Eliot, and conjoined by brooks and creeks, feeds the tidal section. The York River flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at York Harbor in the town of York.

The Abenaki name for the York River was "Agamenticus," which means "Beyond-the-hill-little-cove." According to Eben Norton Horsford, Agamenticus "described the site of the mouth of Little York River to one approaching it from the "north", as it lay behind the hill called by the Indians "Sassanows" (the modern Agamenticus). Little York River, a short tidal river, was the "Beyond-the-hill-little-cove."

References

* Eben Norton Horsford, "The Indian Names of Boston, and Their Meaning"; John Wilson & Son, University Press, Cambridge 1886

External links

* [http://www.asce.org/history/brdg_sewalls.swf History of Sewall's Bridge]


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