The Cousins River ( Native American : Sisquisic ) is a 4.7-mile-long (7.6 km), primarily tidal river in southern Maine . Rising in the town of Freeport at the junction of Harvey Brook and Merrill Brook, it flows south and forms, for most of its course, the boundary between Freeport and Yarmouth . It flows into the Royal River just west of its mouth in Casco Bay .
5-478: The river, Cousins Island and Littlejohn Island are named after Englishman John Cousins ( c. 1596 –1682), who emigrated from Marlborough, Wiltshire . 43°47′44″N 70°08′33″W / 43.79564°N 70.14255°W / 43.79564; -70.14255 This article related to a river in Maine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cousins Island Cousins Island
10-637: Is an island in Casco Bay within the town of Yarmouth in Cumberland County , Maine , United States. It is listed as a census-designated place , with a population of 490 as of the 2010 census . The CDP is part of the Portland – South Portland – Biddeford , Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area . The island is connected to mainland Yarmouth by the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge (colloquially known as
15-718: The Cousins Island Bridge), built in 1955. It is also connected to Chebeague Island by a 15-minute ferry ride on the Chebeague Transportation Company's ferry, the Islander . The island's southwestern peninsula is the site of the Wyman Power Station , an oil-fired electric power plant capable of producing up to 823 megawatts of electricity. Wyman is a peaking power plant , which means it is fired up to operate only during times of high electricity demand in
20-487: The region, such as hot summer days. The Wyman Energy Center also includes a lithium-ion battery grid energy storage system which was the largest and the first of its kind in New England at the time of commissioning. The battery is designed to provide ISO-New England an option for handling the continual changes in electricity supply and demand. The island, Cousins River and Littlejohn Island (collectively known at
25-484: The time as the Hogg Islands) are named after Englishman John Cousins ( c. 1596 –1682), who emigrated from Marlborough, Wiltshire . He became the owner of Cousins Island in 1645 after purchasing it from Richard Vines, Steward General and councillor for Sir Ferdinando Gorges . Two years later, he sold approximately half of it to Richard Bray, who settled there with William Wise. Heritage Radio station WYAR
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