Quote #1591 about new england history by Alice Morse Earle
"The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house."by Alice Morse Earle
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