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Photographer: Bill Pfingsten
Taken: November 7, 2008
Caption: Ha-Ha Descriptive Marker
Additional Description: A. ha-ha is a sunken wall often used on English estates instead of a fence because it allowed for uninterrupted views of the meadows while keeping out livestock. Such views at Rockwood are best appreciated on the veranda, from where the ha-has appear to be continuous. In keeping with his desire to create an English estate, Joseph Shipley had a ha-ha built to separate his gardens from the rest of the property.
Left: Illustration of a ha-ha from Edward Kemp's How to Lay Out a Garden, 1850.
Center: The ha-ha from the north lawn, 2002.
Right: The ha-ha from the south lawn, 2003.
Submitted: November 16, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p43755
File Size: 0.796 Megabytes

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