Alice Morse Earle quoteAlice Morse Earle [1851-1911]
American Historian 
Quote rank: 120
| 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. |
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