Proposal:Stone Wall
| Stone Wall | |
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| Proposal status: | Obsoleted (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | mvpel |
| Tagging: | man_made=stone_wall |
| Applies to: | linear |
| Definition: | Linear mounded stones and boulders used for agricultural boundary and fencing in colonial New England |
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| Rendered as: | rocky-looking line |
| Draft started: | |
| Proposed on: | * |
| RFC start: | * |
| Vote start: | * |
| Vote end: | * |
This has been moved to obsoleted proposals by the approval of barrier=wall. Combine with a historic=ruins or other suitable.
Thousands of miles of stone walls line the countryside of New England. Much research and writing has been done about them. For a web-page primer, see Sagas in Stone: Stonewalls and the Palimpsest of the New England Landscape, or for the old-fashioned set, the book Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York. A small but dedicated cadre of researchers and outdoors enthusiasts has focused on exploring the history and geography of these walls.
The walls chart out the history of the land - often the stone wall follows its stoic course across the landscape without regard for the lay of modern roads, fences, and property lines. Sometimes they are deeply hidden in long-abandoned, forested land that once supported a family farm.
The walls have also become targets of theft by those seeking to sell the stones to adorn someone else's landscape, so documenting their locations could be a critical step to help insure their preservation.
- FWIW, the current barrier proposals (Proposed_features/barriers) would probably cover this. Circeus 06:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)