Centennial woods has a rich history of interaction with humans and being utilized for its natural resources. Native Americans from the Abenaki Tribe are known to be the first settlers of this land. There is evidence of tools and other supplies found throughout the park. Post-Native American settlement, European colonizers were the next to put this land to use and set up a large dairy/ agriculture operation. When they did this, it accompanied mass deforestation that took out 80% of Vermont’s trees. There is evidence of this farm all throughout the park through the forms of barbed wire and stone walls used to divide the farm. The walls could indicate either a two wall agriculture system or a means of controlling the livestock. After some time the land was abandoned and released to public lands, and eventually turned over to UVM as a natural area.
