Site 2: 400 years ago

Four-hundred years ago, the first settlers would have just been reaching New England. Site 2 was most likely an old-growth northern hardwood forest with complex structure. Since our site is not easily accessible for logging and is a poor site for agriculture we think it's likely that the site stayed fairly consistent with an old-growth forest up until the mid 1800s, when technology allowed for increased use of less desirable, sub-par land for agricultural use.