The mystery of New Englands stone walls

[@sugarmuffin319]

Josh cussing out litter bugs is my new favorite thing😂

[@michaelangelo7511]

Very nicely done. I have forty three acres in Stafford Springs CT and we have several thousand feet of stone walls plus big piles of stones. Very rugged area. When you lift a stone there is no dirt. Just another stone. As far as the bums that litter; I pick a grain bag full of beer cans, power drink cans, nips , food wrappers etc once a week. Every scumbag drunk likes to find a patch of woods to throw their garbage. It is frustrating.

[@danielfournier735]

G 👁️👁️ D ! Show and Tell Video ! Intelligent Speaking Youngblood. Go ! Get Em Josh. Salut.

[@richardross7219]

The stone walls were a way to get rid of the stones picked up when plowing. In colonial times, the Kings law required establishment of boundary markers. Stone walls fit the requirement. Most stone wall building stopped after 1816(the summer that never was) because land values dropped as people went west. There was a time when stone wall masons from England came here as indentured servents(slaves) to build walls. There are many kinds of walls. The ones built by masons usually look a lot better than the normal walls. I did some surveying 40 years ago and saw many types of walls. The best preserved tended to be in swamps. We used to only survey swamps in winter when they were frozen. Good Luck, Rick

[@embz95]

This fella does a great service by keeping up with local history, lore and is very informative while being entertaining. I would be shocked if he wasnt in school to be a educator specifically in history.

[@Mr39knuck]

Maine. I once found a box of jewelry in an old foundation, like you found ..I pulled a cool old bracelet out of the box and there were a lot more that I left behind. I wish I knew where I found it. It was many years ago, later I cleaned the bracelet and I found out that old dirty bracelet was 18 karat gold. 😅

[@Joshopedia]

I need photos!

[@Joshopedia]

If you have some email them to [e-mail]

[@Mr39knuck]

OK, will do

[@angelicafreund8551]

Interesting indeed Josh. I always wonder what these stone walls are doing far into the woods where we hike ...like in the middle of nowhere.

[@samanthab1923]

Directions to special spots or boundaries of long forgotten fields

[@safetyshotgun308]

Maine. Josh you’re doing wonders and you’re definitely going to carve out your own little slice of KZbin. KEEP IT UP!!👏👏👏

[@nancyleiper9307]

You do a great job. Very well done.

[@mamaswan7346]

I grew up with stone walls on our property lines. It was helpful when wandering in our mini wood. 😊

[@melissaleisure8858]

Maine. Love your videos. Learning a lot. Moved to Mass 15 years ago. Thanks.

[@JourneyMetaspirit]

Maine! I love your content and how you both care about the environment. ❤ Thank you! ❤

[@johnm9840]

Just have to walk into the woods from my backyard and I'll run into 4 separate walls, one of them just runs forever it seems. There's also a concrete bridge way the heck out there for the train that used to run thru North Reading.

[@loco7357]

Maine! I just found your channel from some shorts- I love seeing New England history. I grew up in Malden- living in Witch City for years now …..I don’t think I could ever move out of New England!!! We have it all- ocean, mountains, rivers, National Parks…and so much history! Looking forward to seeing more videos from you guys!!! ❤❤❤

[@lumburgapalooza]

From MA, these are a daily sight for me. I've heard stories that treasure hunters would search them for antique booze bottles that the farmers would hide from their wives! Not sure if that's true at all but the story stuck. They're such a cool part of the landscape and always full of wildlife. Chipmunks and snakes love them.

[@irishshawn3310]

Maine! We have a wall like this separating our yard from our neighbors! Crazy info!

[@joegallicchio26]

Maine. These are some of your best videos. Don't stop making these!

[@roxyinla3311]

I wish we had more guys like Sam. Thank you buddy.

[@19valleydan]

there is definitely an infinite supply of rocks in New England fields

[@isaiahgimlewicz8298]

Growing up in Western MA/Dalton, I really enjoy your videos. Much of the info told to me by my father originally, now 82!

[@JoeMazzolaTheFirstPersonCook]

I love that youtube has started showing me local new england forest lore. When i kick this cold I'm dragging my best friend out to do some woods adventures!

[@cozyandahalle]

They are a monuments to how hard the New Englanders' lives were, and how hard they worked. It was once the measure of their character.

[@lumburgapalooza]

As a lifelong New Englander I can tell you that "work ethic" is still our fetish. We have a cultural obsession with work. "Lazy" is the worst thing you can call someone around here, and you will get called that if you're not up at 5AM doing yard work.

[@Never_Raines]

ah maine i live there, my house foundations are literally just piled rocks

[@minioliver83grumpy25]

I wholeheartedly agree that people that litter are idiots! I live in North Central Massachusetts on the same land my family has been on since the mid 1700's and there are quite a few stone walls that are still boundary markers, it's pretty cool to see. I very much enjoy watching your videos and it's really fun to see some places I've actually been! A fun one you might want to check out is the bridge of flowers in Shelburne Falls. And also........ Maine 😊

[@andrewday3206]

You should check out the Eyrie House ruins on Mount Tom Holyoke/Easthampton

[@justinleclairabdullahqasim117]

Maine. We were born in Portland and have family all over NE. Good job!

[@SlverNexus]

Maine ; started it all. I’m from upstate NY and had those stone walls around in the forest and still used as property lines. Love your approach and content keep it up!

[@bassmanbilly1969]

Great video

[@mamabear000]

Love your channel ty.

[@John-sk9nh]

My ancestors built walls like that in Connecticut long time ago

[@kevingirard7844]

Love these videos Josh. I grew up in Massachusetts so these videos really take me back. Have you ever visited Sturbridge Village, Plymouth Plantation, old Salem, Mohawk Village, or Gillette Castle?

[@silvertbird1]

Remember the Maine! Fascinating, no place like New England. I live in Rockwall, Texas (our rock wall is underground), annd always enjoy visiting Massachusetts and surrounding areas. Remarkable so many of these walls remain. Did you find out the age of that structure? Someone put quite a lot of labor into it. I have no idea, but would think at least early 19th century?

[@richletram539]

Maine. I love your videos about New England. 😁

[@williamvanlierop7046]

My back hurts just watching this video; however, I do love the rock walls and honor the people who build them.

[@margaretgreen1741]

Maine. Thanks for the interesting video. !

[@OctoberSky88]

Maine!! I love these videos !

[@7hilladelphia]

Maine.... we went to Ogunquit. I learned to swim in Wells. Many years ago. ❤

[@pipemma1893]

Good thing you capitalized that 😅

[@bobrobert6277]

in southern quebec we see some too

[@99999liquid]

You should check out the Structures across the stream at Glendale Falls in Middlefield. It's from Early English Settlers.

[@dianedonnachie2794]

I live very near there and yes he should check out that area.

[@GoingtoHecq]

Maine down below.

[@l.l.2463]

Thank you! I visited upper NY years ago and saw these. It was like people had seen them so much they didn't really "see" them anymore. No one I asked could really explain them to me.

[@nogoodboyo1200]

I just found you, maybe 4 months too late. I hope you keep posting sometime soon, I love this content about little known new england facts!!

[@edisonaardvark2163]

I always enjoy your posts. And litter bugs should be dealt with in the harshest terms.

[@dennismullins8585]

Good for you Sam they are idiots indeed.

[@njkauto2394]

Maine. Interesting, 👍🏼

[@christopherhayes5238]

I grew up in Auburn, ME and there are several stonewalls on my parents' property and all around the area where they live, especially in the extensive woods in back of their house. Actually, there are stone walls that mark many property borders between neighbors all up and down my parents' road, including a stonewall between my parents' property and one of their neighbors. To the best of my knowledge, my parents' house was built in the 1860s, possibly earlier. The original foundations/root cellar is quite a bit smaller than the current house, so the original dwelling (which no longer exists) is probably older than said current dwelling. I have never done any "backyard archaeology", so I wonder what might be found if I did some.

[@cali5995]

Maine. Keep up the great videos!

[@prestonbrown5771]

Hey Josh have you found any money stashed in jars in the walls.? My step Dad was from Maine he said that people would find money in jars in the walls.

[@rhondascraftobsessions5817]

My Oma & Opa lived in Upstate NY. They were keepers of a farm and GS camp. I used to take these rock walls for granted until one day I ask my Dad why they were there and the only thing he could come up with was division of propery lines. :)

[@marksletters]

Thank you for video !!

[@brittsaunders4621]

Maine. Very interesting!

[@g.odeoradhain]

Looks like Yorkshire

[@garyjones451]

Love your videos guy's

[@barrybouthillier5204]

Maine,I absolutely love you videos. Im a Native rhode islander was wondering if you have any videos of RI

[@jamesmonahan1870]

Wonderful video. 😊

[@thomaspayne6866]

American Indians built stone walls from Georgia to Maine. The walls were built to channel energy of some sort, or so they believed. The walls were built long and curvy. I grew up in Braintree Massachusetts. I used to wonder why those big boulders were in the woods near by childhood home. Pretty cool.

[@bobspurloc]

stone walls all through the woods marking old farmland. even better are the massive glacial boulders scattered throughout the the woods. boulders like a big SUV or a log cabin

[@baddnurse5443]

Maine ! Great videos ❤

[@kmterpin]

Southern Connecticut native here. As a child was told the same thing you're reporting--guess some people knew some things even back then. Have seen these walls in Stonington, CT (where natives are called 'Swamp Yankees') & wonder if that's why it's called "Stonington"?

[@kevinhensdill3734]

Thanks for sharing! Maine!!

[@DavyOneness]

I read in the book "Manitou" that one of the main reason it was called new England was because when the British first arrived the walls were already here and when they asked the Indians they told them they were already there when their people came too. In England their are the same exact style of stone walls across the countryside and same mystery to who or when they were built. That was why it reminded them of England so much that they had to call it "New England." I'll need to check what their source is on that. I still have yet to see that explanation anywhere else

[@gretafae]

I have o never of the beautiful walls dividing my property from DEP. Years ago, a top stone by the road was stolen. They weigh several hundred pounds. Unfortunately they are in demand.

[@gretafae]

Correction: "one"

[@MissAmanda616]

Fun fact during the great depression men were paid to build a large wall, around Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, MA. (it’s said to be the 2nd longest wall after the Great Wall of China, that could be city lore tho?) I’ve lived in Massachusetts my entire life & always wondered what the purpose of the stone walls were all over the state, thanks for the info & it’s cool to learn that the stones in the soil got there as a result of the ice melting hundreds of thousands of years ago.

[@MissAmanda616]

You gotta go check out Stone Tower, Steel Tower & Dungeon Rock in Lynn woods!

[@loco7357]

I’ve heard the same about this wall being the second longest! My mom was from Lynn and my Nana Babe has a plot she is buried in with several cousins and aunts buried there also. My grandpa Walter is in the Veterans section. Huge cemetery and I used to love going there as a kid (I would go there with my mom often to visit her mom). A lot of memories there!!!

[@James-k3z7f]

Thanks Sam ..❤❤❤️🧡🩵💜💙😊

[@ErsatzMcGuffin]

Not fair! Who was in Maine during 1607 clearing land to farm? Is it true that most of these walls are protected history by state law. I think I recall reading about some wall issues in Andover or Hebron CT back in the 70's or early 80's??? Interesting!

[@kona702]

W Sam picking up the trash from nature

[@MrSirlulzalot]

So, aliens 👽 definitely aliens 👽.

[@elizabelleg3270]

Amazing foundation!!

[@tribbergrips1613]

I subscribed because you didn't ask me to, and because I dropped a like before you asked. And that is all you asked. But you gave me so much

[@mattnobrega6621]

Good places to do some metal detecting looking for some old colonial treasures left behind.

[@jon8994a]

Yeah Sam!

[@robertsheppard5556]

Josh you should keep your cloths on and just be the teacher everyone dreams about. Great job young man!

[@brunobar8506]

Maine, and bro can you please make your videos longer on KZbin, I came here to hear that sweet buttery voice for the monetized 10 minutes that I was promised.

[@sucatash57]

If you are looking for farmland and the fences and buildings are made of stone move on, they didn't get them all picked up.

[@229jhiker]

Maine another great video!

[@jamesthedog7783]

Maine. C for the e. Awesome stuff

[@privatedata665]

good on Sam

[@maximusmeridius1665]

Love your videos, Josh

[@Joshopedia]

I appreciate that!

[@maximusmeridius1665]

@@Joshopedia welcome but you didn't show love to my comment

[@hannahrose4091]

Oooo Maine

[@Brd100000]

Nice video! ❤

[@scubadudefrommaine]

Maine!

[@mre3161]

Great video Prehistoric megalithic giants is who made the walls and many of them and areas are even in serpent shape meaning they're not straight but S like.

[@jon8994a]

Main. Fascinating

[@brettbirdguy]

Maine!❤

[@mysteriousmountains]

According to the United Southern and Eastern Tribes (USET) a non-profit, inter-Tribal organization serving thirty-three (33) federally recognized Tribal Nations from the Northeastern Woodlands to the Everglades and across the Gulf of Mexico. Not all the walls were built by settlers "whether these stone structures are massive or small structures, stacked, stone rows, or effigies, these prayers in stone are often mistaken by archaeologists and State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs) as the efforts of farmers clearing stones for agricultural or wall building purposes"

[@jfruser]

Mane. Or Maine.

[@jayhays8267]

We have these walls all around our neighborhood. I would like to know how they made these walls. These walls are made of stones too large for one person to move alone without power equipment.

[@DanRyan-pq2ov]

Cool, Thanks : )

[@1aikane]

Some are very old property boundary markers

[@jdwhitebh]

Maine 04609

[@gunnardittrich9997]

Maine.

[@darlenejordahl3187]

I’ve heard that old timers built areas to keep their hogs in.

[@GreatGreebo]

Maine 🤘

[@StuartBearden]

Maine

[@Beanieweenieable]

Those walls are much older than colonial farmers stacking them. It’s nonsense that no one attributes the walls to an early culture. They are NOT all colonial walls.

[@AlexmaxPL]

Honest quesiton, why does this video make a cut after every sentence?

[@Bcasey11]

New England forest is my life

[@richgrous6394]

Farmers. Southern new england is second and third growth forest.

[@BadGovt]

Was that a Bedframe in the ruin??? Maine.

[@lauriepalmer3593]

Go Josh!!!!!