These walls were constructed between the early 1920s and the mid 1960s, many of them make-work projects, a legacy of the
Dirty Thirties. They show varying methods and styles of construction which changed with the times. Some were dry laid, without mortar, while most were set in mortar. The walls employing larger rocks indicate their construction in later periods, when more and larger equipment became available to the stone masons.
The city has recently placed ten bronze plaques at strategic points throughout the city which indicate the date of construction of particular walls and the names of the stone masons who laid them. This is a wonderful way to commemorate these stone masons from yesteryear and the legacy they have left behind for future generations.
This is yet another dry laid wall which was laid in 1965 by a stone mason named Francesco Santilli, who had a hand in several other walls in the city. The wall, about eight feet high and 30 or so feet in length, is at the western entrance on the city on Old Rossland Avenue, behind the island on Highway 3B which holds a riot of flowers in the summer and the "Welcome to Trail" sign.
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