The Upper Penninsula of Michigan is not usually considered an agricultural area, but researchers found uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities.
Hanover, N.H.—Michigan's Upper Peninsula is not considered a strong location for large-scale farming, with its cold weather, brief growing season, and thick forests. However, a new study by Dartmouth researchers has found that in the past, earlier members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin apparently had large, successful farms and agricultural centers from around 1000 to 1600. In fact, the researchers feel the area at the Sixty Islands archaeological site on the Menominee River is the most complete, largest older farming site in the eastern United States
"The scale of this agricultura...
