STORRS, CONN. — By and large, New England’s iconic stone walls have withstood generations of wandering wildlife, howling blizzards and even the occasional hurricane. Now the rustic walls face ...

How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England. Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial ...

As nature reclaimed farmland, stone walls continued to mark historical boundaries. John Delano, CC BY-ND. Decades later, while living in a rural setting in upstate New York and approaching ...

The majority of New England’s stone walls were built within a 30- year period from 1810-40. During this time, agriculture was a driving force and most residents were farmers.

Lidar reveals the stone walls hidden beneath the canopy. Comparing their orientation with true north provides the magnetic declination at this location when boundaries were surveyed in 1768.

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, ...

Sit with me upon my stone wall under this ancient foliage-laden oak tree. Listen to the Canadian Goose overhead traveling in a southerly direction in anticipation of the approaching winter. Enjoy ...

New England once had 240,000 miles of stone walls, enough to wrap around the Earth 10 times. But these iconic structures, woven into the region's history, environment and identity, ...