Kansas Post Rock Fence
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Kansas Post Rock Fence
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digitally Enhanced
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"Kansas Post Rock Fence" by Catherine Sherman.
A post rock fence encloses a farm in central Kansas.
Farmers and ranchers who settled central Kansas in the last 25 years of the nineteenth century found few trees to build homes or erect fences so they turned to the abundant limestone that lay just under the surface.
The limestone that is visible throughout the Smoky Hill counties of central Kansas is the top layer of the many layers of sediment deposited by a series of interior seas that covered Kansas between 500 million and 65 million years ago.
Post rock country is a 200-mile swath of land running southwest from a central point on the Kansas-Nebraska border to a point a few miles north of Dodge City, became the very practical building and fencing material for the settlers who came to this area in the last 25 years of the nineteenth century. The use of the limestone for fence posts and barbed wire to connect the posts was crucial to the transformation of central Kansas from open range land to cropland.
The Kansas counties where you can find post rock fences are Lincoln, Rush, Russell and Ellis counties.
Featured in "Images That Excite You" group (05/06/2016); "Midwest America Photography" group (05/09/2016)
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May 5th, 2016
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