LAND
Land and agriculture are inextricably linked, with farmers depending on the availability and affordability of quality land to sustain crop growth or livestock grazing. Here, we look at how, in earlier years, agriculture shaped space and land use in New Jersey and how, in later years, other land use priorities, for housing or industry, in turn shaped agriculture.
This aerial photograph, taken from a tower in East Pyne Hall on the Princeton University campus, shows the early nineteenth-century relationship between urban and rural land in Princeton, with sprawling farm fields visible just beyond the commercial buildings on Nassau Street.
Collection of the Historical Society of Princeton