Way back in time, there was something of 100 feet of ice sitting atop this scene causing gushing run-off sedimentation at enough velocity to carve up this dense stone. In more recent times, the English explorers came upon this site - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne decided to lend the area his name and claim it for his King. That name stuck; Shelburne it was.
What followed that event is settlements, farmers, traders, and eventually someone who knows the flowing water is power and sets up a mill. A bucolic industrial output engine begins to supply the broader empire throughout the 1800's and early 1900's.
Within the last fifty years, the post war years; production softened as demand for local goods moved overseas. Get the picture? The economics of the last two generations have changed the legacy economic models of America's beginnings.
"You can't go home again" said Thomas Wolfe (the first) - addressing the stormy volatility of his generations longings for stability and homestead. Is this something of a cycle, Americans must deal with?
Yes.
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