[DOC] [TLE] Popham Colony - Wikipedia [PAR] The Popham Colony  also known as the Sagadahoc Colony  was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River by the proprietary Virginia Company of Plymouth. [DOC] [TLE] Popham Colony | Maine: An Encyclopedia [PAR] The Popham Colony on the Kennebec River was the first organized attempt to ... 
the same authority to the south and established the Jamestown Colony. ... the 
colonists chose Sabino Head at the mouth of the river for their settlement in what 
is ... the Popham Colony, 1607-1608: An Archaeological Portrait of English 
Building... [DOC] [TLE] Popham Colony | The Maine Story | Pat Higgins [PAR] In 1607, the same year in which Jamestown was colonized in Virginia, the ... the 
northern colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River didn't last but a year. 
Jamestown takes all the honors as the first permanent English colony in North ... 
of the king's Secretary of State Sir Robert Cecil, were granted rights of settlement 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Maine's Lost Colony | History | Smithsonian [PAR] Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot. ... A 
colony called Popham actually did precede the renowned Massachusetts ... 
archaeologists to work for three weeks at the mouth of the Kennebec River, ... 
The only known detailed plan of an early English colony, the map contains .... 
City / State. City. [DOC] [TLE] Popham Colony: History: Discover History & Explore Nature: State ... [PAR] The Popham Colony was the first organized attempt by the English to ... It was 
planted at the mouth of the Kennebec River in the summer of 1607 and lasted ... 
the Pilgrims who established the first permanent settlement in Massachusetts Bay
... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Popham Colony - Maine's First Ship [PAR] Although nearly half the colonists returned to England in December 1607, in 
order to ... English explorers and would-be colonists came to present-day Maine 
in the ... of the Kennebec River and built a small settlement called Fort Saint 
George. [DOC] [TLE] American Journeys Background on Relation of a Voyage to ... [PAR] Early English and French Voyages, Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608. ... When 
George Popham sailed in 1607 to settle the Sagadahoc colony at the mouth of 
the Kennebec River, he first landed at Monhegan Island. ... run by the Friends of 
the Maine State Museum, maintains a website with information on the colony, 
and on... [DOC] [TLE] Popham Colony - Topics [PAR] The Popham Colony was the first colony in the region that would eventually 
become ... English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 
and located ... Much of this historical location is now part of Maine's Popham 
Beach State Park, ... Others faced a cold winter during which the Kennebec River 
froze. [DOC] [TLE] Exploration and Settlement of Maine - United States History [PAR] The first significant English settlement in Maine occurred in 1607 with the 
establishment of Popham Plantation at the mouth of the Kennebec River. ... The 
competing claim was from resident colonists who wanted to ally themselves with 
... 1450-1499) established an English claim to the North American continent as 
early as... [DOC] [TLE] The John Hunt Map of the First English Colony in New England [PAR] In late August 1607, a small band of English colonists landed at the mouth of the 
Kennebec. River in Maine to establish the first English colony in New England... [DOC] [TLE] Architecture of the Popham Colony, 1607-1608 - DigitalCommons ... [PAR] An Archaeological Portrait of English Building. Practice at the Moment of 
Settlement. Peter H. ... From August 1607 to summer or fall 1608, the Popham 
Colony was established on what is now known as .... The mouth of the Kennebec 
River, formerly the Sagadahoc. River, site of Fort St. George, England's first 
colony in New. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline [PAR] 1568 - David Ingram is credited with the first documentation of a Penobscot Chief, 
... 1607 - George Popham and Raleigh Gilbert, along with the captured Indians

Question: Founded in 1607, the Popham colony on the Kennebec River was this state's first English settlement
Answer: Maine