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Ella Mills

b. 1848

Best known for preserving the story of a New Hampshire town, this little-known local historian wrote with a clear sense of place and community. Her surviving work offers a vivid snapshot of Dunbarton at the turn of the 20th century.

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Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire

Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire

by Ella Mills

About the author

Ella Mills, born in 1848, is credited as the author of Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, a town history published in 1902 by the Manchester Historic Association.

That book is a concise record of Dunbarton’s landscape, early settlement, churches, schools, and civic life. Rather than writing fiction, Mills appears to have worked in the tradition of local history, preserving details that might otherwise have been lost.

Very little biographical information about her was readily confirmed from reliable online sources beyond her name, birth year, and authorship of this work. Even so, her book remains a useful and lasting contribution to the historical memory of Dunbarton, New Hampshire.