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Sunday, October 20, 2024

October 20, 2024

A mining engineer named Oliver Bowles in 1939 figured there are about 240,000 miles of stone walls in New England. That’s twice as long as the U.S. coastline – including Alaska and Hawaii. The densest concentration of New England stone walls goes along the Connecticut coast to Portland, Maine, and then inland about 100 miles.

- newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

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