After white settlers drove Indigenous communities from their homelands, (ahh,the glories of woke wkpd...gotta get that stab at whitey in there!) the land was purchased by Hercules L. Dousman, who was a man of many trades: a fur trader, a lumberman, a land sculptor, and a frontier entrepreneur.
I tried to find out what a "land sculptor" is, and other than a tractor attachment - which I don't think ol Herc had - well, Diana, what is a land sculptor?
Now, I've studied a little of Ian Mcharg's "Design with Nature", and that's about as close to what I imagine that is:
Basically, planting 'shields' of evergreens to block the prevailing winter winds, and planting (bushes, etc.) to produce a venturi effect to capture summer winds...things like that. Just a guess, though!
I think you’ve got it right!