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Settlement & Abandonment On Tatnic Hill
An Eclectic History of Wells, Maine 1600-1900
by Joseph W. Hardy
While offering the history of one small Maine community, Settlement & Abandonment on Tatnic Hill addresses broader themes and events in the history of the Town of Wells and surrounding communities, all against a backdrop of pivotal events in American history.
Tatnic’s first settlers, Mordan’s Caves and Baker’s Spring, Elijah and Elisha Allen’s sawmills, the challenge of clearing land, quarrying stone, and building boundary walls, the Webber and Johnson families . . .
The nature of farming on marginal land, maps that reveal the pattern of settlement and eventual abandonment of homesteads . . .
Struggles with the “Indians” in the early years, the impact of epidemics on settlement, fence viewers and hog reaves, Wells’ role in Independence, decisions about schools, roads, and town buildings, siting of textile mills in Dover, the Berwicks, Kennebunk, and Sanford . . .
The French & Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, Jefferson and the Embargo Act, “Ohio fever” and the “year without a summer,” the arrival of the railroad, the Civil War, the economic upheavals late in the 19th century . . .
6" x 9" trade paperback,
264 pages
ISBN 978-1-934582-10-7
$18.95
Book is available from author Joseph Hardy
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