dcr
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Registered: February 2004
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A scene at Squam Lake. In the early to mid 1800's, sheep farming became very important to the NH economy, and the farmers soon started using many of the islands of local lakes as safe pasturing sites for some of their flocks - no expense for fencing or labor of building stone walls (most of NH's stone walls were built during the 40 - 60 years when sheep farming was important), and predators like wolves would be less of a threat to sheep so located. Perhaps this island got its name because sheep were once pastured here. Rattlesnake Island is one of the Winnipesaukee islands reported to have been used in a similar way during that period.
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