Highway 100 between Nashville and Murfreesboro on the way to Franklin has some of the nicest stone fencing. There are large beautiful estates with arched stone bridges spanning creeks. What always amazed me about Woodbury was the roadside stands on hwy 70 selling broken sandstone rock crystals which were used for door stops, I assume. Are they still doing this? Charles Page ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Nichols" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Fence > Kevin, > The Scots and Irish were renown for their ability to work with stone. A > good many of the chimneys for the older homes were built by such settlers. > Stone masonry was a valued craft in their day. Many of the stone masons > would travel from town to town engaged in chimney building. They may have > done the same with fences as well. A good many of the fences were built > also as a coordinated effort to remove the stones from the fields they > plowed. The rocks would be carried out of the fields and tossed into > stacks at the ends of the rows. Later they would come along and build > fences from the rock to protect the fields and establish the boundary > lines for their property. There always seemed to be multi purposes behind > the endeavors of our ancestors. They were a very wise and industrious > people. > Danny Nichols > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Morgan" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:50 AM > Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] Fence > > >>I remember a woman who was writing in on her Murphys, >> siad her James Murphy, who came from Ireland, was a >> fence builder in Cannon County prior to the War. >> Kevin > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Cannon Co. list, send mail to.. > [email protected] ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >