When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
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Alice Morse Earle
These are some quotes by American author Alice Morse Earle Historian, who lived between April 27, 1851 and February 16, 1911.
Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
