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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1334112, member: 18157&quot;]Welcome Dan!:welcome:</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the early to mid 1800&#039;s, New England was 80% cultivated and only 20% wooded (Connecticut, anyway...I&#039;m sure there were more farms in Vermont as well). Now it&#039;s the other way around...80% forests. You don&#039;t have to dig too deep in New England before you hit granite. Farmers had to dig up plenty of rocks before a field was ready to plant. The problem was...what to do with all the rocks? New England farmers turned the liability into an asset and made rock walls around their fields. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now-a-days, you can go hiking through the woods and see all sorts of rock walls. Those walls used to surround cultivated fields. The interesting thing about these rock walls is that folks had to climb over them to get about and, sometimes, pocket change would fall out as the walls were traversed. Other times, folks would hide things (such as coins) near a rock wall...in a place that was easily identifiable. I&#039;ve heard many stories about folks hiking in the woods of New England with metal detectors and finding all sorts of rare coins along these rock walls. :secret:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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