2023年11月14日 · History shows that even the strongest walls built to gate off empires, nations and cities—Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall—eventually become ruins.

The story of New England’s stone walls starts hundreds of years ago and thousands of miles away, in Spain. There, medieval shepherds bred a unique kind of livestock—Merino sheep—which produced incredibly soft wool (and is used today in many hiking/outdoor clothes).

2018年5月4日 · According to Robert Thorson, a landscape geologist at University of Connecticut, these walls are “damn near everywhere” in the forests of rural New England. He estimates that there are more than...

Abandoned stone walls found in the woods all over New England have a long and fascinating story. Long before their recent re-discovery and appreciation in the early-20th century, the vast majority of stone walls were in the process of falling apart and decomposing within the woodlands of New England.

2024年4月29日 · In reforested areas, the only visual remains of past human impacts are historic stone walls, offering researchers insights into centuries of agricultural practices. These historic stone walls can be important boundary markers for delineating boundaries of historic deforestation and how historical land use impacts present day forest composition ...

2014年5月13日 · Although the oldest documented stone wall in New England dates to 1607 — made by English settlers of the Virginia Company along the estuary of the Kennebec River north of Portland, Maine — most of the region’s stone walls were built in the Revolutionary period between 1775 and 1825, a period that Thorson calls “the golden age of stone ...

2024年9月29日 · “These stone walls are fantastic symbols of the new republic, the early Americans, the prideful development of a country before the troubles of the Civil War,” Thorson said. But Thorson said the walls also reveal a darker part of America’s history.

2021年5月4日 · Stone walls originated in the early 1800s through the mid-1900s. As more farmers began to settle in New England, the forests were destroyed and turned into large open fields. The glaciers that receded at the end of the last Ice Age left behind millions of stones on this land.

2023年12月9日 · Stone wall classification begins with the stone domain – the entire constellation of historical stone objects. From there, we carve out a distinct class of stone walls that’s separate from other rock assemblies, like concentrations and lines, as …

2024年2月17日 · Old stone walls are an iconic part of New England's countryside — and forests. Here's how scientists are using new technology to learn even more about them.