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Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards @ MichaelLondonSF @mas.to
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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.

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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.