Sunday Mountain | |
| A seven foot stone wall can be seen as the trail begins to climb Sunday Mountain. This was most likely used to keep in livestock on the poor farm property, potentially sheep and later cattle. In addition numerous old logging roads crisscross the trail. The first logging operations began in the 1600s in New Hampshire as the British earmarked tall pines for mast on the Royal Navy ships. The demand for increased grazing and crop land coupled with the desire for wood products resulted in deforestation of nearly 70% o f the land south of the White Mountains by the 1850s. Today, nearly 85% of New Hampshire’s land is now forested despite the fact that logging is a $1.7 billion industry . The photograph on the top of Sunday Mountain is part of the former Franklin farm and shows evidence of the land changes. Notice young pines have been planted on the former grazing land. | |
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