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> There's always a reason for the fence. Yes: To get the rocks out of the dirt so we can farm there. https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-
by msla 5y ago
> There's always a reason for the fence.
Yes: To get the rocks out of the dirt so we can farm there.
https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-00048&segmentID=6 https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-000...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-stone-walls https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-stone-wall...
Now, of course, New England with its rocky soil is no longer an agricultural powerhouse, so maintaining a stone wall in the middle of re-forested land is rather pointless from the perspective of anything other than an antiquarian interest. The whole world has changed and the walls weren't primarily intended as boundaries anyway.
- slowhand09 5y agoPointless unless it now marks lots, or pastures for animals. You've never see a fence or wall to delimit the upper pasture from the lower pasture? Or to mark the area where you leave trees to grow rather than weed them as samplings, thus forming a woodlot for future generations. Stone fences in days gone by were probably very desirable say as cover when fighting the British during the revolution. Original reasons may be obsolete, but it doesn't make future reasons invalid.