Walls | Stone

The prevalence of stone walls resulted from a unique combination of natural and human processes:

Glaciers deposited uncrushed rock across the region, leaving behind a "glacial till" of stones, boulders, and gravel. Stone Walls

European settlers deforested the land to create farmland. This exposed the soil to intense freeze-thaw cycles, which caused buried stones to "heave" to the surface, creating what farmers called a "second crop" of rocks. The prevalence of stone walls resulted from a