Dry Stone Walls
There are lots of dry stone walls in parts of Martha’s Vineyard. All those boulders of varying shapes and sizes lying around were the result of a retreating glacier that had scraped from the land before it stopped. When the first Europeans arrived about 400 years ago, they wanted fields for livestock and defined boundaries, so these stones lying around came in very useful. By the late 1700’s there were tens of thousands of sheep on Martha’s Vineyard, but there are not many there now at all.
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Dry Stone Walls
There are lots of dry stone walls in parts of Martha’s Vineyard. All those boulders of varying shapes and sizes lying around were the result of a retreating glacier that had scraped from the land before it stopped. When the first Europeans arrived about 400 years ago, they wanted fields for livestock and defined boundaries, so these stones lying around came in very useful. By the late 1700’s there were tens of thousands of sheep on Martha’s Vineyard, but there are not many there now at all.
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