By the late 19th century Essex County had seen fur trading and logging, land clearing and farming, road building and railway development, saw mills and gristmills, railway stations and water ports. By this time the forests were being removed to make way for farmland.
By the late 19th century Essex County had seen fur trading and logging land clearing and farming road building and railway development, saw mills and gristmills, railway stations and water ports. By this time the forests were being removed to make way for farmland