Original sentence: A number of gardens and Victorian-period built houses are located in and around Great Village.Great Village is home of Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Bishop, who has based many of her stories on the life of a fictional village of the same name.Originally a port for Londonderry, the village was founded in 1761 by land grantees who arrived on the Hopewell, a ship carrying Ulster emigrants whose arrival was arranged by locally stationed British army Captain Alexander McNutt, himself an Ulsterman.The area was earlier settled by Acadians, who built dykes to create farmland from the area's saltmarsh.The village partially exists on this created land
Edited sentence: Great Village is best known as the home of Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Bishop who based many of her stories on life in a fictional Great Village.Not to be missed is a drive down (literally) to the dyked farmland that is the reason for the village: being below a mountain of water gives one a visceral appreciation of the skills of the Acadians who constructed the original dyke.The town is very pretty and has a number of outstanding gardens and older homes.The town was founded in 1761: many of the original grantees were from the ship Hopewell out of Ireland organized by Captain MacNutt