Detail of a photograph of Chipman Hill in Middlebury, Vt. looking northeast. More than half of the hill is used for agriculture. From the collection of the Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, General Collection

Detail of a photograph of Chipman Hill, looking northeast, dating to early twentieth century. Only the southeastern foot of the hill is still in agricultural use. From the collection of the Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, General Collection

Detail of an aerial photograph of Chipman Hill, looking northeast, dating to the 1980s. Chipman Hill is fully reforested.From the collection of the Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, General Collection