In 1607, John Hunt and an adventurous group of English settlers established what is known as the Popham colony on the banks of the Kennebec river in what is now Phippsburg, Maine. The outpost lasted only a few years but did not suffer the same indignities as the Jamestown colony in Virginia. More information can be found here.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer currently under construction at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, on the Kennebec river. This boat will be commissioned as the USS Lyndon Johnson in about a year. I have been told it will be based in San Diego.
According to our tour guide, the surface angle design and radar-absorbing surface tiles of the 600+ foot craft will result in a radar-signal image similar to a 40 foot ship.