Shelburne farms is located in the Champlain Valley. Then thousand years ago this area was under a glacier that shifted rocks and moved soils. This shifting made for great farmland in the Champlain Valley. Many people were farming during this time in the 1800s including the land that is now Shelburne farms. As technology improved with steel plows in the 1870s, and refrigerated railroad cars in the 1900s, individual family farms were being abandoned and turned back into old growth forests.
This is a picture of an old tractor, symbolic of the intensive farming that this land used to be used for.
The barn used to be used to house cows in a large quantity.
Some farming still happens :)
This picture shows the design that the landscape architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, designed to look like the islands of Lake Champlain. (Islands of trees in a "lake" of grass)
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