In the years after the civil war, the early settlers came to Kansas and found the prairies nearly treeless.  As they broke the sod, they found limestone, which they called greenhorn.  This was a ready made building material.  The first homes were called dugouts. As time prevailed the settlers cleaned off the stone and quarried it into building materials.  They used these to build homes, barns, corrals, and fence posts. The post were used with the invention of barb wire, as the earlist form of fencing livestock. These miniature stones are handmade from the same limestone that was used in the early years.

Although this little stone does not weigh much, its larger brothers weigh about 300 to 500 pounds. Over 40,000 miles of fence were built in 50 years, using the stone posts. Many of these are still in use today.