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The first library established in the town Eliot was a private lending library established by William Fogg and housed at his home on Old Road. Fogg's son, Dr. John H. S. Fogg, a Harvard-educated doctor, continued his father's interest in education, amassing a collection of books. Upon his death he gave most of his book collection to the town ...
Punkintown (or Punkin Town [1]), once known as Emerytown, [2] Emery Town, [3] or Emeryville, [4] was a village situated at the corners of South Berwick, Eliot, and York, Maine from the 1800s through the early 1900s. At its peak, between seven and ten families gave the small town its population of somewhere between 30 and 40 people.
Eliot is a town in York County, Maine, United States. Originally settled in 1623, it was formerly a part of Kittery , to its east. After Kittery, it is the next most southern town in the state of Maine, lying on the Piscataqua River across from Portsmouth and Newington, New Hampshire .
ELIOT, Maine — Town Hall will nearly double in size if voters approve a multi-million-dollar bond Tuesday. Voters are being asked to approve $4 million for the Town Hall project and improvements ...
Pages in category "Eliot, Maine" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Paul Family Farm is located at the southern corner of Depot Road and Goodwin Road (Maine State Route 101), in a rural area northeast of the Eliot village center.The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding.
Reviewing the book in the New York Times, Charles Poore wrote that its "execution is fogged in great blurs of words, words, words"', and in the same paper, Elizabeth Janeway judged that "Mr. Elliott has stirred a lot of things together here, but he hasn't cooked them at a high enough temperature to melt them into one."
John Eliot was an English colonist and Puritan minister who played an important role in the establishment of praying towns. In the 1630s and 1640s, Eliot worked with bilingual indigenous Algonquians including John Sassamon, an orphan of the Smallpox pandemic of 1633, and Cockenoe, an enslaved Montauk prisoner of the Pequot War, to translate several Christian works, eventually including the ...