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Activity: Orford's Changing Agricultural Landscape

Era:Expansion and Reform (1801 – 1860)
Type of Document: Photographs
Theme: Landscape, Agriculture

Click on: The Landscape History of Central New England

plus  Jeremiah Marston, Jr. began to raise sheep after 1830. All over Vermont and New Hampshire, farmers abandoned large crop production and cleared expansive tracts of forested land for sheep grazing.Which diorama best illustrates what Jeremiah Marston’s farm might have looked like?
plus  Only ten years later, Marston’s sheep farm began to decline due to competition with the new, large farms in the west. Which diorama best illustrates what his farm might have looked like after the sheep boom?

Historical Context: meanwhile...Congress passes the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act opening up the west.