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 | | In the 1830s, over the 10 years of occupation, the surrounding trees were cut down to obtain lumber for building and for firewood, but in the reconstructed New Salem the trees have been allowed to grow and hence the foliage is more dense and lush. |
 | | We could say that the 1830s village was a copy, based upon a model of 1820s villages, adapted to the conditions of the 1830s, modified in accordance with the particular situation of the New Salem locality, and subject to whatever creative modifications were devised by the New Salem residents. |
 | | All we have of the 1830s now are a few artifacts, archaeological remains, old records, some stories, and mental models of the old prairie village, models that may exist vividly in the imagination of the public and the historians, but models that are ever changing. |
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