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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how Shelburne developed out of a need to support the people who had laid down roots and began imprinting upon the landscape. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a shipyard were instrumental in setting the stage for Shelburnes industrial contribution to its own needs and, as time went on, to the surrounding areas that too were experiencing growth
through the subsequent decades. The ability to move freely from one area of town to another and to travel from one community to another required the growth of an
infrastructure that supported farming and logging activities that inevitably became Shelburnes greatest economic sustenance. Damned water from the man-made LaPlatte river was harnessed to power the mills, which gave
Shelburnes industries a considerable benefit in production cost saving (Butler et al, 2004). II. HUMAN ARTIFACTS AND LANDSCAPE The human artifact (Jackson,
1997) of paired photography guides visitors understanding of Shelburnes landscape as it provides two very different perspectives of the same site to compare the impact man and natural environmental changes
have had upon the landscape. Coupling historic and modern photography as a foundation upon which to draw these comparisons, historians and novices alike successfully illustrate just how significant an
impact a particular structure or other man-made formation altered the landscape either for better or worse. Mans imprint upon Shelburnes past is both grand and far-reaching; that each church,
bridge, park and home erected within the community served to change the very terrain upon which they were established speaks to a certain value this transformation has had over the
decades, both in a historical and tangible sense (Butler et al, 2004). For example, the bold columns of the Pierson library built in the first half of the nineteenth
century sat unadorned amid old growth trees and an unkempt grassy area in comparison to its modern self that is surrounded by a lush lawn, rambling sidewalks, old growth trees
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