Te-lah-nay Memorial rock wall (Tom Hendrix, over 1 mile)

Hendrix built the wall with his bare hands, and none of it is held by mortar. The Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall near Florence, Alabama, is a dry-stacked wall about a mile long and four to six feet high, according to the SPACES Archives. Tom Hendrix, who retired from a Ford aluminium plant in Sheffield in 1983, built it in memory of his great-great-grandmother Te-lah-nay, a Yuchi woman. As Alabama Living tells her story, she was taken west on the Trail of Tears, missed the Tennessee River, the Yuchi’s “Singing River”, and about five years later made her way home.

Alabama Living reported in 2026 that a Yuchi elder told Hendrix to use no mortar, lay one stone for each of Te-lah-nay’s steps and work on it for the rest of his life. The magazine describes two wooded paths, a straight one for the journey to Oklahoma and a winding one for the walk home, and a prayer circle in four layers of rock for birth, life, death and rebirth. SPACES records Hendrix estimating about eight million pounds of sandstone and limestone; Alabama Living says 8.5 million. The National Trust reported in 2015 that visitors had added stones from more than a hundred countries and territories.