Places in the US that have a lot of stone fences (dating, pictures) - General U.S. - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

Torresdale · 05-12-2009, 08:46 AM

Philly has a couple of them. They're called prisons.

sav858 · 05-12-2009, 11:43 AM

The Big Island of Hawaii has a volcanic rock fences/walls everywhere, more so than the other islands due to all the lava rock around.

ki0eh · 05-12-2009, 12:59 PM

Susquehanna County, PA has the most amazing dry laid stone fences I've seen in the USA. The picture on this page is about half as high as typical. Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Endless Mountains

WILWRadio · 05-12-2009, 01:02 PM

Yankee Magazine just did a story about this. Apparently eastern Connecticut has about the largest concentration of stone fences in the country. My hometown of Simsbury, CT has a lot of these as well. You can walk around in the McLean Game Refuge or any of the forests in town and eventually you will run into a stone fence.

dem3456 · 05-12-2009, 01:16 PM

I have never heard the term "stone fence" until now. My family always just referred to them as stone walls, and all the ones I have seen here in New England look mainly like messy piles of boulders, like some of the ones Verseau posted. I have one that lines one side of my home in suburban Massachusetts. It is true that in New England you see them all the time, but they aren't very orderly.

WILWRadio · 05-12-2009, 01:23 PM

^^^Don't forget a lot of these fences are literally 300 years old. Time and the elements has a habit of impacting environment. :-)

Coolhand68 · 05-12-2009, 01:25 PM

Massachusetts has a lot of stone walls and fences.

jtur88 · 05-12-2009, 01:31 PM

South-central Kansas has a lot of stone fence-posts. They are the same size and shape as wooden fenceposts, and strung with barbed wire. But there was so little wood, the landowners had to quarry out and shape fenceposts of limestone. Many of them are still there.

WILWRadio · 05-12-2009, 01:37 PM

^^^I think they call that Post Rock County. They are also in central and west central KS.

Here's a link to the recent Yankee Magazine article on the subject of Stone Walls in New England.

Robert Thorson New England stone walls - Yankee Magazine

ABQConvict · 05-12-2009, 01:43 PM

New York has a lot of them too. Mainly of the New England, stacked stone variety.

You will be hiking through 200 year old forests of massive trees and come across a stone wall. The trees on one side of the wall will be 100 years younger than those on the other side of the wall. Also, if you poke around in the rocks you can find neat stuff like old clay pipes and rattlesnakes. My brother once found a musket-ball in a wall in lower Westchester.

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