Eliot is a town in York County, incorporated on March 1, 1810 from a portion of Kittery.
Settled in the 1630's it was part of the Piscataqua Plantation created in 1647. Its many historic sites include Maine's first Quaker Meetinghouse built in 1776.
A growing residential community serving the Kittery and Portsmouth areas, its population expanded by almost 12 percent in the 1990-2000 decade.
