It turns out some of the most important examples of stone walls are in Massachusetts.
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Maybe you’ve seen them during walks in the woods, or on drives along curving back roads: ribbons of rock piled waist-high, dividing one plot of land from another. Stone walls are ubiquitous in most of New England, born centuries ago out of practicality.
There were once roughly 240,000 miles of stone walls criss-crossing the region, according to an 1871 survey. Now, after many years of road-building and development, there are closer to 100,000 miles—which would still circle the globe four times…