After the glacier receded, indigenous peoples lived here during the warmer months, moving inland in the winter to villages surrounded by forest. They lived in this diverse ecosystem hunting deer, bear, moose, fowl, seals, and whales; fishing and . . . — — Map (db m306170) HM
From the 1600s to the mid-1900s, Ninigret's
lands were used for farming and sheep grazing.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy converted
these farm fields to the Charlestown Naval
Auxiliary Landing Field, known to young pilots
as . . . — — Map (db m306174) HM
