New England’s first battle, long before Paul Revere’s midnight ride to Concord, MA, was a battle with the soil itself.

Yes, soil. By 1875, a time before the railroad opened up the west, farmers were feeding massive East Coast cities. Ox drawn plows would strike rocks, lodged in the topsoil in the last ice age. Stones were moved aside to the edges of fields. The next year, more rocks rose, and the walls bordering fields grew taller. Again and again stones grew. Farmers felt cursed, but instead, a difference in density between the rocks and the soil and the freezing action of the winter causes the stones to become buoyant, even today. Hundreds of thousands of miles of these stonewalls were eventually constructed in New England. They were left behind as family farms moved westward. Now, these archaeological ruins still line the countryside, often amidst trees that have sprouted up around fallow farmland. American Stonecraft is a Benefit Corporation based in Lowell and Boston Massachusetts that employs diamonds, water, and electricity to grind through rocks to make really cool art. We make products like Food and Cook Slabs, Coasters, Trivets, Bowlders, and Furniture, even offer our lineup of products from customer sourced boulders.