During the 1680s, several hundred Wabanakis fled the English wars of conquest in the south and gathered at Amitgonpontook, where nearby fish, farm crops, and clay deposits for pottery supported residents' material and spiritual needs. English colonists destroyed the town in 1690, but most residents escaped, and many of their descendants returned. In 1794, the Wabanaki elder Perepol explained that his people continued to inhabit the region, and in the middle of the 1800s, Wabanakis regularly camped there. In the early 1900s, Wabanakis adapted to the Twin Cities, with some making snowshoes and baskets now seen in the Androscoggin Historical Society. Today, Wabanakis are among the hundreds of American Indians who call Lewiston-Auburn home.