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Spring Hill Ranch Barn Tour Stop 6: Stone Corrals
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Historic Spring Hill Ranch Barn Corrals
Stone corral walls enclosed space to the south and west of the barn to contain cattle during roundups. These walls had been reconstructed by stonemasons from Lexington, Kentucky using traditional dry stone building methods and techniques. No mortar is used to hold the stones together. Only the sheer weight of the stones themselves, the friction between them, and the precise shaping and fitting of the stones, hold the walls together.
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