I left Schoharie County and moved north many years ago but I do remember those stones well well. My father in law had a hilly farm and every time he plowed a field we would pick stones. Lots and lots of flat stones so I know where the material came from for those walls.
Most of those long lasting stone walls were not built by the farmers but by traveling groups made up of family members who traveled around the county side building those walls for a fee. The farmer or farmers who were having the walls built began collecting the stones from their fields over several seasons and supplied the stone when the wall builders arrived. The historian who told me about the wall builders said that it would be a big community event when the walls were being built and that they could lay hundreds of feet of wall in a day often with many farmers and their horse teams involved.
Take a few minutes and look around those woods with the stone walls and try to imagine the place full of people and horses all busy building those straight, long lasting monuments to the early settlers of this great country.
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