".even a modest house required at least twelve tons of wood...the average
seventeenth-century New England house consumed fifteen cords, or 1,920 cubic
feet, of wood per year, meaning that a town of two hundred homes depended on
the deforestation of as many as seventy-five acres per year."

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

 

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Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild

17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT  06525

Office:  203-397-8505

Fax:  203-389-7516

Mobile:  203-981-4004

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www.LelandTorrenceEnterprises.com

 

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