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upstatenybowyer:

--- Quote from: Buffalogobbler on February 15, 2018, 08:13:36 am ---We have them here in western new york, some of them are quite long.
I always thought they were farm boundaries from the old homestesders.
 I always found them in second growth forests.

Kevin

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+1

osage outlaw:
I don't know if we had any civil war battles here in S.E. Indiana.  I haven't heard of any.  The walls aren't near any property lines.  They are at the bottom of a hillside.  There is zero chance of it being flood control.  The creek is dry unless it rains and then it's just a trickle of water flowing through it.  The wall would probably still be standing if I hadn't of messed with it when I was a kid  :-[   The rocks are from the creek bed next to it.   This spring I'd like to build a small dam across the creek.  I'd like to make a small watering hole  for the deer.  It would be a 10 yard shot from my stand. 

The first doe I killed with a recurve this past deer season was standing a few feet from the wall when I shot her.  She jumped it after the shot.

PEARL DRUMS:
That creek may have roared at one time. What it does now doesn't mean much. We have a river that flows by about 5 miles south of the house. It used to float paddle wheelers not all that long ago, now its just barely deep enough to run a flat bottom.

bjrogg:
Whatever the reason I'm sure there is one. Nobody piles stones for the fun of it
Bjrogg

osage outlaw:

--- Quote from: PEARL DRUMS/PEARLY/PD/DRUMS on February 15, 2018, 01:51:06 pm ---That creek may have roared at one time. What it does now doesn't mean much. We have a river that flows by about 5 miles south of the house. It used to float paddle wheelers not all that long ago, now its just barely deep enough to run a flat bottom.

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Trust me, it's not flood control.  This spot is maybe 150 yards from the top of the hillside where the valley starts.  It's just a run off for the rain.  Our property is on the high ground.  I'll show you next December  ;)

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