railfence

[Field of a mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• John Hopkins said:

  The rail fences in the foreground were typical of the region. They could be built without nails or other fasteners -- typically of chestnut, a native wood plentiful in the Blue Ridge Mountains until a blight wiped it out in mid-20th century. Haystacks were the common way to harvest hay for animal feed before mechanical balers were invented. I remember my grandfather and older cousins piling hay with pitchforks on a field too marshy to bring machinery into. The two stacks at the left of this field look like they might have been assembled of cornstalks rather than meadow grass.

• Zsofia Nagy said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called HAYSTACKS - 100 members! Celebration!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Taron Curtis said:

  I noticed your
  wonderful photograph!
  Please join our group...
  Farming Life
  ...and add your beautiful photo to our group's pool. Thank You.