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Depending on the state or region in which you live, there are various kinds of CT fencing used for various reasons. For example, if you live in Arizona, mud based adobe style fencing structures are used more than wooden CT fences. In the Midwest simple classic white picket fencing is used quite a bit, and in the southern portion of the US, like Kentucky where there are a lot of horse farms, split rail white fences are the favorite choice. Many of these are just based on what is preferred in that region or what holds up best to the weather there as well. One type of fencing however, has some important history to it and that is a stone wall that can be found all over New England.

Stone walls can be found on most properties in the following New England states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and New York. Many of these stone walls are tucked back and hiding in wooded areas of different properties and can not be seen by anyone. People that enjoy subjects such as history, science and their own property soon began researching these different stone walls that could be seen in these area in New England.

There are considered to be tens of thousands of segments of stone walls throughout the world with one of the biggest being in New England. If you were to add up the length of all of the stone walls found in New England it would most likely reach all the way to the moon. One estimate was that it was about 240,000 miles in length. The height of most of these stone walls is higher than the adult knee but below the hip usually measuring a height at about 2 feet so they were not particularly high. It is quite rare to see a stone wall that is taller than this. Most of these walls were not actually built .

Most stone walls are simply rocks that were balanced on top of the other without anything holding it together. It is thought that they were originally made by farmers that needed to clear the rocks from their property so they could use the land for growing. They would stack the rocks on the edge] of their farm which eventually also acted as a property marker constructed in the early 1600’s with the majority of them being built between the time period of the American Revolution and the Civil War.

The next time you are in some fo these New England states take a look around the edge of a property and you will most likely notice a low stone wall that most likely was built a very long time ago . It is a unique piece of the history of these states which no other kind of fences can claim.