Eliot, Maine Eliot, Maine Eliot is positioned in Maine Eliot - Eliot State Maine Eliot is a town in York County, Maine, United States.
6 Education SAD35 (Eliot and South Berwick) The honor of naming the town is sometimes given to Alexander Shapleigh who was reportedly born around 1574 at the Manor of Kittery Court in Devon, England.
Dartmouth, New Hampshire, of course, and Exeter and Appledore are also small-town place names borrowed from this region in the county of Devon.
ALEXANDER SHAPLEIGH(1), the pioneer of the American Branch of the Family, was born apparently at Kingsweare, Devon, England, about 1574, and was probably the son of Nicholas Shapleigh, of that place, but of this we are not quite sure.
A name that had come down in the Shapleigh family for a several generations, and the name, followed the family to America and finally gave name to the Town of Kittery, Maine.
The town Kittery, Maine, was incorporated in 1647, and today bills itself as "the earliest incorporated town in Maine." It was titled after the place of birth of a founder, Alexander Shapleigh, from the manor of Kittery Court at Kingswear in Devon, England.
Kittery's initial land region extended from the Atlantic Ocean inland up the Salmon Falls River, including the present-day suburbs of Eliot, Berwick, South Berwick and North Berwick.
Kittery Court (also called Kittery Quay) still survives and is on the list of sites to visit in Kingsweare.
Originally part of the Piscataqua Plantation (renamed Kittery in 1647) called Sturgeon Creek in the 1630-40s, it became the North, or Second, Parish of Kittery in 1713 following the incorporation of Berwick. On March 1, 1810, Eliot became a town.
Prior to its incorporation as a town, the Second Parish had been in conflict with Kittery's other churches since at least 1791.
The town was either titled after Robert Eliot, who was a member of the Provincial Council of New Hampshire, or for Reverend John Eliot of Boston, a friend of General Andrew P.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 21.32 square miles (55.22 km2), of which, 19.78 square miles (51.23 km2) of it is territory and 1.54 square miles (3.99 km2) is water. Eliot is drained by Sturgeon Creek and the Piscataqua River.
Eliot is served by state routes 91, 101, 103 and 236.
The town is northwest of Interstate 95 and near the New Hampshire border.
See also: South Eliot, Maine As of 2000 the median income for a homehold in the town was $52,606, and the median income for a family was $63,598.
About 5.2% of families and 5.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 3.5% of those age 65 or over.
As of the census of 2010, there were 6,204 citizens , 2,509 homeholds, and 1,783 families residing in the town.
There were 2,509 homeholds of which 31.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 59.0% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 28.9% were non-families.
The median age in the town was 45.4 years.
Education SAD35 (Eliot and South Berwick) Eliot Elementary School John Fremont Hill, state congressmen and US senator, 45th governor of Maine (1901 1905) Alexander Shapleigh, Merchant, noted as Founder of Kittery United States Enumeration Bureau.
(1886), Gazetteer of the state of Maine.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
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