Stone walls can be found on most properties in the following states in the Northeast: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and New York. Many of these stone walls are located back and hidden in wooded areas of different properties and can not be seen anymore. People that enjoy subjects like history, science and their own property soon started to research these different stone walls that could be found in these states in the Northeast.

There are considered to be tens of thousands of segments of stone walls throughout the world with one of the largest being in New England. If you were to add up the length of all of the stone walls found in New England it would probably reach all the way to the moon. One educated guess was that it was about 240,000 miles long. The height of most of these stone walls is higher than the adult knee but below the hip typically reaching 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|made] to be a kind of fence which is interesting as that is what it looks like .

Most stone walls are just 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 It is thought that they were originally made by farmers that had to get rid of the rocks from their property so they could use the land for growing. They would stack the rocks on the {outskirts|edge] of their farm which eventually also acted as a property marker as well . Most of these walls were constructed in the early 1600′s with the majority of them being made 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 perimeter 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 special part of the history of these states which no other type of fencing can claim.