MichaelLondonSF

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17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide. in c/[email protected]

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@TheConversationUS @histodons

You forget that the obverse of the walls is the cleared fields between. Clearing the filedstone was necessary for cultivation, surely.