Flows southwest into Mactaquac Lake, Saint John River.
Named for John Gibson, settler from Kilmarnock, Scotland 1843.
Campbell 1785 called it River Essepenack, derived from Maliseet for ‘steep sided’ or ‘raccoon’; Nightingale 1840 called it Tomkins Creek; Saunders 1842 called it Tomkins Mill Stream; Bailey 1894 called it Gibson’s Mill Stream.
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