Forget Stonehenge: These Stone Walls Are Right in Our Backyard

Thursday, July 11, 2024

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The Fascinating History of New England's Stone Walls

The earliest stone walls date from Neolithic times, and they're a feature you'll see in many European countries today.

When Europeans migrated to North America beginning in the 17th century, many of them intended to farm and brought livestock with them. To keep their crops and animals separate, they needed to erect some kind of barrier. They did so in the way they knew how, and dry stone walls sprang up in the U.S. as a consequence. New England had an especially large number, thanks to a combination of the right kind of rock, glacial soils, and a prevalence of small family farms. Though their purpose was often simple — to demarcate land used for agricultural or residential purposes — the methods used to construct them were ahead of their time. Their ubiquity gives them a cultural significance within this region, too.

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