Farming/Logging
Native Abenaki people cut trees and cultivated crops like maize along the fertile glacial lakebeds of the Monadnock Region. Agriculture was the backbone of the local economy in every town between 1750 and 1800. However, when the sheep craze subsided in the 1830s, many hill town farmers abandoned the rocky thin soil they had tilled for generations in favor of deep and fertile Midwestern prairie. Today there are fewer than twenty-five working farms across the Monadnock region. Return to main map

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Pisgah before the Park by John Putnam, Russell Herman & J. Ray Donovan Farming/Logging	Growing Up on a Walpole Farm Audio talks by the Graves Brothers Farming/Logging