Each spring I write of three places, three beautiful places where colonies of rocky shoals spider lilies bloom. One is quite accessible; one is perhaps the world’s largest colony, and
Landsford Canal in eastern Chester County was designed by Robert Mills as part of a comprehensive plan of internal improvements designed to connect fall line markets with the upstate.
Hauling two wire cages of stacked stone, the flatbed turned right and crept uphill. Cormac McCarthy wrote that the oldest profession in the world is not prostitution. Itâs stacking stones. Well, you can stack stones as they are and you can stack stones shaped by man and nature. Youâll see small river-carved rock stacks on the Chattooga, and youâll see stacked stone supporting the overhang of old stores.
Stacking stones crafted by the hand of man make beautiful structures but they arenât immune to gravity. The stones you see here are part of Badwell Cemetery in McCormick County. After quarrying, stonecutters gave them a rough shape and stonemasons sculpted them into a precise shape.