VIDEO: Stone Walls of New England

Comment from Leona Thompson on March 5, 2009

Wonderful! Makes me want to visit these special places!

Comment from Catherine Hoke on March 6, 2009

As I walk the country roads near our home in Southern Herkimer County, N.Y. I see the remants of these wonderful, difficult to contruct, walls our ancestors built. There are so few masons today who can reconstruct them.

Comment from Needel, Sylvia on March 10, 2009

I've built a small stone wall or two in my younger days - it is truly an art, and if I could afford one of the ones 'for sale' I'd buy it! They are treasures.

Comment from DIANE VAUGHAN on March 10, 2009

I have a stone wall that borders my land. This used to be a horse farm many years ago. The squirrels love running up & down to get to different trees. It definitely defines our land plus you can see there used to be a road, probably during the horse and buggy days as there is another stone wall that borders the other land and by the age of the trees that have grown, you know it has been a long time sine it was used as a road.

Comment from Cyndi Loveless on March 11, 2009

I grew up in Colchester Connecticut and we had stone walls everywhere. Now that I am living in Ohio, I find I miss them. We had chickens that used to jump on the rock wall and them jump to roost in the tree. We also had a dog who got so excited when we came home, she would leap over the stone wall as she ran around the yard. Your pictures made me homesick

Comment from Jennifer Legler on March 11, 2009

Such walls are not limited to New England. Virginia, and specifically Northern Virginia - not the area near the beltway- has many fine examples. I am always mesmirized by them and believe they do hold so much history. A neighbor near the Potomac River has started a new wall in Great Falls, VA, and I hope it is there for many years to come.

Comment from Kathy Morris on March 11, 2009

Some of my most cherished memorys are of gathering stones from the feilds with my Grandpa and stacking those to build fences in Western NY. These stone walls are part of our history,ad so beautiful to look at. I hope to someday find a homesite for myself that has one on it.

Comment from Sylvia on March 14, 2009

My husband was born and raised in the Swansea, Mass. area, and his home was surrounded by an old stone wall, which also ran down the road all the way to the water. His sister and other family members homes nearby also had the old stone walls. I loved sitting on them when we would visit and have family dinners outside. Great memories.

Comment from Pamela & John Aaron on April 16, 2009

When we lived in Nashua,traveling around the areaseeing the Stone Walls was fascinating to me.Growing up in Texasit was something rarely seen.However,having studied some Irish History_I was reminded of those walls built across Ireland.It gives one the feel of Old World serenity.We in fact have a mini-stone wall on our farm here in Texas to remind us of their charm and grace.

Comment from LEE HARRINGTON on August 12, 2009

Just beautiful. I have a lot of stone on my land....how strong is my back?

Comment from Linda Snodgrass on September 1, 2009

I grew up in So. Weymouth, MA. There is a cemetery, from the 1600's, across the street from my neighborhood that is fronted by a wonderful stone wall. My friends and I sat on it every morning for six years waiting for the school bus to pick us up.

Comment from Jody Macrina on September 15, 2009

There is nothing more exciting than walking in the woods and finding a stone wall. I love to look around and imagine the fields that were once there and through time have been reclaimed by the forest. They must have a thousand stories to tell.