We had stone walls surrounding and dividing the pastures and fields of our family farm in north central Pennsylvania. They were crudely built by generations of the men of my family from the rocks encountered and heaved up from the ground by the plow and frost. The farm passed out of the family when my dad decided not to accept it and it was sold. 85 acres with 150 years of family blood, sweat and toil lost to strangers. I remember well walking the pastures and orchard with the cousins and talking about the work that went into those walls...I'm now a senior myself and it still makes me want to cry when I think what we lost because my father had so little respect for history and family.
@darrylnimmons13343 жыл бұрын
I 've had and obesesdion with this subject ever since i had visited Stine Face Mountain in NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW ENGLAND . I'VE SEEN THESE STONE FENCE FROM LONG ISLAND TO MASSACBUSETTS BIG WHEEL G. IN GROTON CONNECTICUT THERE IS A 196 TARD GIANT SNAKE UNDAMAGE NOT NOTICEBLE TO EVERYONE THAT WALKS PAST IT .
@harrybriscoe79484 жыл бұрын
if one farmer can do 130 feet a year, in 40 years he will do one mile . So in 80 years 500,000 farmers can make 1 million miles of walls .
@AsadAli-hm2vx
3 ай бұрын
Did they stop doing everything else to add in this enormous task? Farmers don’t live leisurely lives ;)
@toddhazzard156213 күн бұрын
I was Stationed in Groton,Ct. Where I went to Submarine School; and rode my motorcycle down backroads seeing these walls. Always thought they was cool.
@alwas89163 жыл бұрын
there were no slaves in RI , these walls are from the Tribes that were here to use as home lands, possibly making off their property and or keeping their farm animals in an area. They also could have been used for their farms and what was planted and rotated each year. It doesn't take an archaeologist to explain the theory of these wall. Having lived in RI all my life and hike the whole state, these rock wall are everyplace. And the names of the town, and counties and street and villages are all or pretty much Indian names of Tribes that lived here. Some are named after the colonies of England but not many.
@joestudlick6748
2 жыл бұрын
Many many enslaved in RI - blacks and native Americans.
@harrybriscoe7948
Жыл бұрын
Indians with farm animals ?
@cashenjoe12 жыл бұрын
Who built them? Many stones weigh many tons! No single farmer did this.
@harrybriscoe7948
Жыл бұрын
I have never seen a stone wall with multi ton boulders. It was not a single farmer it was thousands of farmers
@remodelassets65236 жыл бұрын
George Washington's Legacy His anti-Indian sentiments were again made clear in 1783 when he compared Indians with wolves, saying “Both being beast of prey, tho’ they differ in shape.” After a defeat, Washington’s troops would skin the bodies of Iroquois from the hips down to make boot tops or leggings. Those who survived called the first president, “Town Destroyer.” Within a five-year period, 28 of 30 Seneca towns had been destroyed. Paragraph Credit from https:/indiancountrymedianetwork.com "Indian Country Today" A paragraph that needed to be seen.
@engineerjay4207 жыл бұрын
Really? 250,000 miles of stone walls in new england only laid in less than 400 years?! I don't think so. That's about 2 miles per day everyday. No days off. It's a megalithic feat to build all these walls.
@budcat7
7 жыл бұрын
engineerjay420 In 1871 the USDA estimated that it would take 15000 men working day and night 365 days a year, 243 years to build the 252,539 miles of stone walls. And Thorson and a few other authors tell us that most of the stone wall building between 1775 and 1825 (with no footnote) in which the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 took place predominantly in the Northeast. In a mere 50 years!!!! 😅 Uh huh, ya OK and I suppose Unicorns and elves helped them and made cookies for them in trees.😜 The history these guys give is pure romanticized fiction. I'm going to do another video on this mythology these guys are creating real soon, I'm doing some research now. Check out my other videos on my channel if you are interested in this topic.
@budcat7
7 жыл бұрын
engineerjay420 I don't think that Thorson or these other guys are "bad" guys, they want to preserve the walls for posterity and that is good. But creating this whole fantasy about early New England is doing a disservice to Americans and to the history of mankind.
@ajgrab31
7 жыл бұрын
engineerjay420 yes,anyone whos been to Putnam co ny knows these r ancient....2000bc +
@budcat7
6 жыл бұрын
Jay, I just put up a video on my channel addressing this issue. Check it out kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4Nhx6N7ZrTLnto.html
@Andrew195407
6 жыл бұрын
So here is the math. One man can build around 10ft per day, back then he would probably work 300 days a year. that's 3000ft per year. over 400 yrs = 1,200,000 ft or 227 miles. 1000 wallers and you're done, simple.
@joemack51087 жыл бұрын
It is documented that Colonials built these walls, some are thrown together & some are true works of craftsmanship. The work ethic of a Colonial & that of today has no comparison. Are those making comments even from New England? Colonials worked together dawn to dusk as Christian neighbors. The sites for the solstices in NE absolutely Megalithic but to say these field stone fences are not made by Colonials is asinine. I grew up in a suburban Mass. town settled in 1640 surrounded by these stone fences.
@3ncrypt3dcod3s
6 жыл бұрын
Agreed. People don't realize how hard the colonists busted their asses back then.
@budcat7
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm from the New England area and a serious researcher on this subject doing "hands on work". Site your information resource that backs up your statement "It is documented". Professor John Delano Associate Dean Emeritus at SUNY Albany says he can't find any "documentation" and he's a supposed expert on stone wall history in New England but you have that documentation. That's great, post the link or links to your source material in this comment section so we can all go there and get educated because apparently, there aren't any academics that have documentation so this will be a total surprise for them. Thank you.
@Andrew195407
6 жыл бұрын
So here is the math. One man can build around 10ft per day, back then he would probably work 300 days a year. that's 3000ft per year. over 400 yrs = 1,200,000 ft or 227 miles. 1000 wallers and you're done, simple.
@budcat7
5 жыл бұрын
Andrew195407 Yes, the farmers built the walls but they had no time to farm because they were building stone walls and the small issue of inhospitable weather in winter and religious days, at least 52 Sundays, very religious in those days. But hey, whatever you say, they may have employed magic as well. Get bent pal, you are talking out your ass.
@budcat7
5 жыл бұрын
Colonists and settlers did build stone walls, some very nicely crafted ones. But they did not build all of them. The very primitive type, the type that are in very remote and inhospitable areas were not built by either colonists or settlers. They were built by an unknown race of people we hardly know anything about. My own research proves it and furthermore I have discovered aboriginal artwork built into the walls themselves in these remote areas, particularly Vermont.
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We had stone walls surrounding and dividing the pastures and fields of our family farm in north central Pennsylvania. They were crudely built by generations of the men of my family from the rocks encountered and heaved up from the ground by the plow and frost. The farm passed out of the family when my dad decided not to accept it and it was sold. 85 acres with 150 years of family blood, sweat and toil lost to strangers. I remember well walking the pastures and orchard with the cousins and talking about the work that went into those walls...I'm now a senior myself and it still makes me want to cry when I think what we lost because my father had so little respect for history and family.
I 've had and obesesdion with this subject ever since i had visited Stine Face Mountain in NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW ENGLAND . I'VE SEEN THESE STONE FENCE FROM LONG ISLAND TO MASSACBUSETTS BIG WHEEL G. IN GROTON CONNECTICUT THERE IS A 196 TARD GIANT SNAKE UNDAMAGE NOT NOTICEBLE TO EVERYONE THAT WALKS PAST IT .
if one farmer can do 130 feet a year, in 40 years he will do one mile . So in 80 years 500,000 farmers can make 1 million miles of walls .
@AsadAli-hm2vx
3 ай бұрын
Did they stop doing everything else to add in this enormous task? Farmers don’t live leisurely lives ;)
I was Stationed in Groton,Ct. Where I went to Submarine School; and rode my motorcycle down backroads seeing these walls. Always thought they was cool.
there were no slaves in RI , these walls are from the Tribes that were here to use as home lands, possibly making off their property and or keeping their farm animals in an area. They also could have been used for their farms and what was planted and rotated each year. It doesn't take an archaeologist to explain the theory of these wall. Having lived in RI all my life and hike the whole state, these rock wall are everyplace. And the names of the town, and counties and street and villages are all or pretty much Indian names of Tribes that lived here. Some are named after the colonies of England but not many.
@joestudlick6748
2 жыл бұрын
Many many enslaved in RI - blacks and native Americans.
@harrybriscoe7948
Жыл бұрын
Indians with farm animals ?
Who built them? Many stones weigh many tons! No single farmer did this.
@harrybriscoe7948
Жыл бұрын
I have never seen a stone wall with multi ton boulders. It was not a single farmer it was thousands of farmers
George Washington's Legacy His anti-Indian sentiments were again made clear in 1783 when he compared Indians with wolves, saying “Both being beast of prey, tho’ they differ in shape.” After a defeat, Washington’s troops would skin the bodies of Iroquois from the hips down to make boot tops or leggings. Those who survived called the first president, “Town Destroyer.” Within a five-year period, 28 of 30 Seneca towns had been destroyed. Paragraph Credit from https:/indiancountrymedianetwork.com "Indian Country Today" A paragraph that needed to be seen.
Really? 250,000 miles of stone walls in new england only laid in less than 400 years?! I don't think so. That's about 2 miles per day everyday. No days off. It's a megalithic feat to build all these walls.
@budcat7
7 жыл бұрын
engineerjay420 In 1871 the USDA estimated that it would take 15000 men working day and night 365 days a year, 243 years to build the 252,539 miles of stone walls. And Thorson and a few other authors tell us that most of the stone wall building between 1775 and 1825 (with no footnote) in which the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 took place predominantly in the Northeast. In a mere 50 years!!!! 😅 Uh huh, ya OK and I suppose Unicorns and elves helped them and made cookies for them in trees.😜 The history these guys give is pure romanticized fiction. I'm going to do another video on this mythology these guys are creating real soon, I'm doing some research now. Check out my other videos on my channel if you are interested in this topic.
@budcat7
7 жыл бұрын
engineerjay420 I don't think that Thorson or these other guys are "bad" guys, they want to preserve the walls for posterity and that is good. But creating this whole fantasy about early New England is doing a disservice to Americans and to the history of mankind.
@ajgrab31
7 жыл бұрын
engineerjay420 yes,anyone whos been to Putnam co ny knows these r ancient....2000bc +
@budcat7
6 жыл бұрын
Jay, I just put up a video on my channel addressing this issue. Check it out kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4Nhx6N7ZrTLnto.html
@Andrew195407
6 жыл бұрын
So here is the math. One man can build around 10ft per day, back then he would probably work 300 days a year. that's 3000ft per year. over 400 yrs = 1,200,000 ft or 227 miles. 1000 wallers and you're done, simple.
It is documented that Colonials built these walls, some are thrown together & some are true works of craftsmanship. The work ethic of a Colonial & that of today has no comparison. Are those making comments even from New England? Colonials worked together dawn to dusk as Christian neighbors. The sites for the solstices in NE absolutely Megalithic but to say these field stone fences are not made by Colonials is asinine. I grew up in a suburban Mass. town settled in 1640 surrounded by these stone fences.
@3ncrypt3dcod3s
6 жыл бұрын
Agreed. People don't realize how hard the colonists busted their asses back then.
@budcat7
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm from the New England area and a serious researcher on this subject doing "hands on work". Site your information resource that backs up your statement "It is documented". Professor John Delano Associate Dean Emeritus at SUNY Albany says he can't find any "documentation" and he's a supposed expert on stone wall history in New England but you have that documentation. That's great, post the link or links to your source material in this comment section so we can all go there and get educated because apparently, there aren't any academics that have documentation so this will be a total surprise for them. Thank you.
@Andrew195407
6 жыл бұрын
So here is the math. One man can build around 10ft per day, back then he would probably work 300 days a year. that's 3000ft per year. over 400 yrs = 1,200,000 ft or 227 miles. 1000 wallers and you're done, simple.
@budcat7
5 жыл бұрын
Andrew195407 Yes, the farmers built the walls but they had no time to farm because they were building stone walls and the small issue of inhospitable weather in winter and religious days, at least 52 Sundays, very religious in those days. But hey, whatever you say, they may have employed magic as well. Get bent pal, you are talking out your ass.
@budcat7
5 жыл бұрын
Colonists and settlers did build stone walls, some very nicely crafted ones. But they did not build all of them. The very primitive type, the type that are in very remote and inhospitable areas were not built by either colonists or settlers. They were built by an unknown race of people we hardly know anything about. My own research proves it and furthermore I have discovered aboriginal artwork built into the walls themselves in these remote areas, particularly Vermont.