| China is an area of 54 square miles with four villages;
China, South China, Weeks Mills and Branch Mills. It has three major bodies
of water; China Lake, Three Mile Pond, and Branch Pond.
China Lake is 3,832 acres with a maximum depth of 85 feet. You
can fish for salmon, togue, small mouth bass and white perch.
The town of China is in Kennebec County with a population of 3,713,
according to the 1990 census.
Land features in the Town of China would be the three great ponds. In
South China there is the “Indian Heart Rock” also known
as the “Sacred Heart”, The heart was carved near the base
of a boulder on the shore in South China. Legend has
it that an Indian carved the heart into the stone out of
the tribes religious devotions. The original shrine
was a paper heart, which was destroyed one night during
a thunderous storm. Without their shrine the Indians
were dissolute and depressed, so Kekiberba carved the heart
into the stone to last through the ages.
Be sure to visit the neighboring town sites of:
Albion,
Augusta,
Palermo,
Somerville,
Vassalboro, Windsor,
Winslow
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