Stone Fences - Unique to Kentucky?
Jan 24, 2018 07:03:01 #
AK
Loc: Adelaide Hills, South Australia
We have them here in Australia as well, great character, ours erected by settlers to rid the pasture land of rocks. No trees so frnces and sheep yards made with stone walls.
Jan 24, 2018 07:09:29 #
I like the look of stone fences....they have a unique look to it.
Jan 24, 2018 07:17:33 #
Brownie45 wrote:
These stacked stone fences or stone walls are very... (show quote)
Stone walls are common in New England and I see some here in Ohio also.
Jan 24, 2018 07:53:45 #
They were common on our family farm in Vermont. I believe they are common anywhere they are rocky fields where the farmers used to pick the stones with a stone boat prior to planting. Of course some were more artistic and most just utilitarian.
Ed
Ed
Jan 24, 2018 07:54:33 #
They were common on our family farm in Vermont. I believe they are common anywhere they are rocky fields where the farmers used to pick the stones with a stone boat prior to planting. Of course some were more artistic and most just utilitarian.
Ed
Ed
Jan 24, 2018 08:26:28 #
Jan 24, 2018 08:30:07 #
Brownie45 wrote:
These stacked stone fences or stone walls are very... (show quote)
Such walls are English in origin. See them all over the UK. In the US, you see them frequently in rural New England, even PA, and VA.
Jan 24, 2018 08:32:05 #
[quote=Brownie45]These stacked stone fences or stone walls are very common in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. I have never seen fences like these anywhere else.
There is a property near where I live where there is one in progress. I've often thought of talking to the person but I have never seen anyone working on it. altogether there is about 300 feet.
There is a property near where I live where there is one in progress. I've often thought of talking to the person but I have never seen anyone working on it. altogether there is about 300 feet.
Jan 24, 2018 08:39:07 #
Some call them slave walls, or slave fences. Many were built prior to the Civil War and still exist today. Although there are now companies that specialize in building them. They are not cheap, but add a certain panache to the farm.
Jan 24, 2018 08:49:04 #
There's still quite a few in the Hill Country and Cross Timbers sections of Texas. While improving fields the pioneers (often Germans) would turn the rocks into fences. Many of these stone fences are more than 100 years old. They certainly do
enhance the value of the real estate . . . especially in areas with hills.
enhance the value of the real estate . . . especially in areas with hills.
Jan 24, 2018 09:08:14 #
Common in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where we have a lot of shale...mostly stacked stone/dry.
Jan 24, 2018 09:08:40 #
Brownie45 wrote:
These stacked stone fences or stone walls are very... (show quote)
Guess you have never read Robert Frost.
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