36. Claiming Rocky Ground
by D. W. Lewes, and K. Houston
Documentation of Stone Walls in the Proposed Gooney Manor Loop Road Rural Historic District
2004 vi + 64 pp. 77 figs.
Documentation of stone walls in the Gooney Manor Loop Road Rural Historic District, located in Warren County, Virginia, ahead of road improvement revealed networks of "consumption" walls. The rough, drylaid walls mostly served to collect stone removed from rocky fields over a period of decades in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. In one instance, the walls were topped with wooden fencing to contain livestock within field boundaries. The report includes a discussion of various types of stone wall construction in the district and the region.
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