![]() ![]() This is a common timeline of New England forests, resulting in the mostly forested landscape that you can see in the expansive views of Yokun Ridge to the east and south. Since the European settlement of Richmond in 1765, the forests have come and gone as the land was cleared for agriculture, abandoned until the trees regrew, cleared again for charcoal to feed the former Richmond Iron Works, then abandoned, and so on. ![]() Colonization forcefully displaced the Mohican people to Wisconsin, where today that community is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans. Europeans brought disease and war, which dramatically affected Indigenous People. The Mohican people gardened, hunted, and fished these lands. Prior to colonization, the present-day Berkshires were home to the Muh-he-con-neok, the People the Waters That Are Never Still. These lands continue to be of great significance to the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation today. This land, and all of the present-day Berkshires, are the ancestral homeland of the Mohican people who were forcefully displaced to Wisconsin by European colonization. ![]() Enjoy walking the path through the fields or explore the trails and woods roads in adjoining forestland, including a 45-acre parcel owned by the Town of Richmond. The 660+ acres of linked hayfields and forests of the Hollow Fields reserve offer the Berkshires’ best view of Yokun Ridge, and abundant bobolinks nesting in the grasslands. ![]()
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