The Wawenock or Walinakiak Indians resided on the banks of the Saint George River at European contact in 1605.

[3] The Wawenock along the Saint George’s lived on cultivated products including pumpkins, maize and beans, along with fish, shellfish and game.

[6] In 1606 and 1607 the Plymouth Company sent ships into the area to colonize, but the settlers of the Popham Colony and those who settled along the Kennebec River returned to England in 1608.

127 years would pass before the first permanent European settlers came to live along the Saint George River.

[7] In 1630 John Leverett of Boston sent five traders to establish a trading post in the Saint George estuary 5 miles (8 km) below “the head of the tide”.