Stone Wall in Southern New Hampshire

[DaveNH]

Well if you ever run out /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
send'em my way!

We're all in this together! (3)

 

[billboe]

My brother-in-law is a stone mason in Southern NH... I believe he is always looking for good supplies of rocks...

Billboe

 

[MikePA]

Some advice from Muhammad on the Forum Feedback forum. No offense intended because they are great pictures.

Basically, I would prefer to see images posted as attachments rather than inline images, to save space and loading time on pages. Also, there are getting to be too many threads with images that are wider than the tables placed in posts. This creates more work for us since we have to edit individual posts to change the images from inline to links. If they are already attached to someone's post, there's no point to place them in another post with the [image] tag.

 

[Thomas]

Does a stonewall add to your taxes if one builds a wall,or repair the as needed today.

Your right DFB, just a matter of minutes heavy equipment can remove a story from the past.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>...I never could figure out why those crazy settlers built all those rock walls in the middle of the woods...</font color=blue>

In my neck of the woods, in the late 1700's and 1800's, those rock/stone walls were built as boundary walls/lines in the then fine meadows and fields...

Now, 150-200 years later... the forest is grown up around the walls... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>...I was told if a famer built so many feet of stone wall each year it help pay some of his taxes...</font color=blue>

Adjacent property owners sometimes would move/relocate these stone walls/boundaries to expand their property lines...

Even today, an old wire fence or stone wall line carries extra weight with most property laws and surveyors as showing control of property ownership...

 

[MikePA]

<pre><font color=blue>Even today, an old wire fence or stone wall line
carries extra weight with most property laws and surveyors
as showing control of property ownership.</font color=blue>


Having worked for a civil engineer, this is true, but only in the
absence of more reliable corner markers such as pipes,
stakes, etc. driven in the ground. What a joy it was, as
surveyors, getting caught between 2 property owners each
of whom insisted they knew exactly where the property line
was. Our standard practice was to drive a 2" x 2" oak stake
almost flush with the ground and then put a small tack in the
stake to indicate the exact corner. We then tapped a guard
stake near the corner and tied orange plastic ribbon at the
top of the guard stake. The irate property owner would
invariably yank the guard stake out of the ground thinking he
solved the problem.</pre>

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>...but only in theabsence of more reliable corner markers such as pipes, stakes, etc. driven in the ground...</font color=blue>

That's one of the keys...

However,... under most adverse possession laws... fencing, walls in place over an extended period of time with other overt acts of property ownership {posted signs, use, maintenance of someone else's property...} sometimes can and will override some of those boundary markers that were never properly recognized... /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[MarkV]

Dekker,

Your post reminds me of a trip we took to England a couple of years ago. There were stone walls every where! It was amazing to think about the labor involved to build these walls up and down the mountain areas for miles and miles. What I found interesting was that the walls were used to funnel sheep to the market areas. When you get to an old village you can see the start of many walls fanning out over the countryside. The walls are still used for the same purpose today.

MarkV