DC writes:
...and also of a stone row in Brandywine Creek State
Park, and a link to some photos of that wall I took. Here is the link to
the photos:
The professor says that the historian for
the Park claims these were built by "Italian stone masons" in the 1880s
or so. That made me laugh. The Italian stone masons were artists, they
would have been totally aghast that someone would suggest they had built
such rude stone rows (not even walls) in the middle of nowhere! There
are walls, built for the DuPonts, in that area but they are very
different from what I have found in the woods. FWIW, my great
grandfather was a stone mason and immigrated from Italy in 1880 to the
US. I never met him but I imagine he would be quite disappointed if
anyone suggested these type of rows were his work. :~) BTW, I am not
knocking the people who DID build these walls, but I think they had a
different purpose and mindset, and there is artistry in what they did as
well, but it is different.
To me, the photos do show aboriginal walls, not colonial examples. The first image seems to show a manitou stone leaning against a portion of the wall. I have seen manitou stones, elsewhere, such as at an impressive wall site in Milford, PA.
ReplyDeleteI may have been hasty in concluding that the large stone in the second image is a manitou stone. It could be, but I'd want to see more of it (side view) to make any firm statement.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that I told dc that I believed the historian - who also seemed not to know of the stone piles which are clearly indicated on the map. I suspect that we are dealing with yet another wet Egyptian - deep in de Nile!
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