In new England there are stone walls everywhere.
They were mostly built 200 yrs ago by local farmers trying to remove stone from their fields.
It's fun to track the old walls through the woods.
Some of that construction is super durable.
Some years ago we had a big spring flood that took out almost every bridge on a local river.
Only bridge that survived was the Choate bridge in ipswich. Built of Stone in 1760 by local farmers.
It's a double arch stone bridge...
When the flood was highest the water rose above the top of the arches. The water sprayed out the other side..it looked like water coming out of a fire hose.
Pretty remarkable.
Bridge...no problem.
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