Would this type of wall be authentic in North/South Carolina? (1 Viewer)

[Cornwallis]

Would you find these types of walls around dwellings / farms in North or South Carolina during the 18th Century (War of Independence period) or are they more typical in the northern states?

 

[skeeterbuck]

I'm no expert on walls, but the random stone walls like these I thought were made when farmers cleared the land. The rocks were collected and used to make the walls.
I would think that anywhere there were farmland there would be thes types of walls, so it would reason that this type would be good to use for any area of the Revolutionary War.

 

[Spitfrnd]

I'm no expert on walls, but the random stone walls like these I thought were made when farmers cleared the land. The rocks were collected and used to make the walls.
I would think that anywhere there were farmland there would be thes types of walls, so it would reason that this type would be good to use for any area of the Revolutionary War.

You definitely see that type in the Carolinas but the rocks on the retail version appear a bit too uniformly flat for a farmer's wall. You might see that for an estate or plantation wall. Farmers walls are generally more irregular with less unform stones.

 

[Scott]

Wow I thought I answered this post with a couple of photos. Guess it didn't "take."

Stone walls in New England are made of rounder stones left over from the glaciers. That wall piece might work for down south.

 

[Scott]

http://share.triangle.com/node/28125


"Interesting to note that these unmodified dry stacked stone walls, only a small portion of the rest surrounding the campus at Wake Forest Southeastern Baptist Seminary greatly predate the campus itself as they were built by slaves to surround a plantation home owned by Dr. Calvin Jones, a founder of the North Carolina Medical Society, major-general in the War of 1812 and Grand Master of the Masonic Order in North Carolina.

In 1812 Dr. Jones sold his home and plantation at Wake Forest to the Baptist State Convention. On February 3, 1834, Wake Forest Institute, as it was called until 1838, was opened in the building with an enrollment of 16 students. The dwelling house was used as the residence of the first President of the College, Samuel Wait, and for classroom purposes. The carriage house was used as a chapel and seven "good substantial log cabins" were used as dormitories.

The home and surrounding structures have long since been moved from their original locations in the center of campus and the home itself now resides at the corner of 400 N Main St and 100 Walnut Ave in the historic district of Wake Forest.

Photo made on August 16, 2009"

 

[Scott]

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harrisonrep/harrbios/JamesHarr1143VA-SC.htm



"A cemetery was built a few hundred yards from the house. This was a rectangular plot that had 6 foot walls made of large stone and no mortar was used. This area, 20 feet X 30 feet still stands today. Some of the stones would weigh 4 - 5 hundred pounds and unless it is destroyed by man, this cemetery will stand like the pyramids of Egypt."

 

[Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio]

These kind of walls could be found almost anywhere east of the Mississippi in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This was a traditional style found in Europe and the UK and would have been well known to the immigrants and settlers.

Although the bulk of local stone in some locations might be rounded from water action and glacial deposits, rocks and stone with newer fractured faces can be found in almost any areas.

In many cases where stone naturally occurred, wood fences often went up first and as each spring brought new stones to the surface, these were piled at the fence lines. In some cases the wooden fences have long disappeared leaving the stones piled at their base. Sometimes you will even see them in the zig zag of a Virginia snake rail fence.

In other locations quarried and dressed stones might be the local building material of choice and as a result rubble from this would be available for fencing too.
Ken

 

[Scott]

BTW, what period/location is that wall section advertized as representing?

 

[Cornwallis]

Thanks everyone for the info, this has been really helpful to me.

Sorry to confuse you Scott you did answer this, I posted it twice at the same time under JG Miniatures first, but thought it would get more responses under 'Dioramas' so sorry for double posting the same thing!!

 

[Scott]

I just looked at the wall section on the JG site. Nice pieces but now I'm prejudiced to say it looks too "British."

("WINK!")

 

[jason foote]

These models walks ar3 such good value and very useful