Batsto Village

Today at GSE, we visited historical Batsto Village. It was an old bog iron producer, then it was occupied by glassmakers. Much of the forest around it was torn down for fuel, and the trees that grew back were largely non-native species.

There was some bog ore in a pile on the ground. It was ugly, and I wondered how anything so raw and rough could be made into so many useful things. So many natural things were destroyed to refine this iron. I hope it was worth it, but I don't think it was.