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G'day Pengs I didn't even know that there were any stone fences around the Rainbow area so you have more info than me! I would say that if they are still there they are probably in an area to the NW of Rainbow in a local area called Pella. It is Mallee country with a lot of limestone which has to be mostly removed before it can be cultivated. Why the old german lutherans ever chose places like this to settle during the very late 19th and early 20th centuries I will never know but it had sandy soils and therefore in their eyes was suitable for wheat growing and most importantly in those days, workable with the horses and equipment they had. And the Mallee scrub had to be cleared before they could even start clearing the limestone so that they could do some cultivating. When I was still a small boy my old grandfather who settled some 20 kilomtres NW of Dimboola in 1902 use to tell stories of those days including about the incredibly hard work of clearing of the Mallee scrub So, yes there could be still some stones fences around that Rainbow _ Pella area as they had to get rid of that limestone somehow. There are a significant number of heritage designated stone fences, some of which are kilometres in length right across SW Vic. The fences in the SW of Vic use the volcanic origin stone that covers most of SW Vic and which was originally blasted out from the SW Vic _ Se South Australia volcanic province as late as some 7500 years ago and which include spots like Mt Gambier's Blue lake and Crater lake. For pipe organ music enthusiasts, the old Pella lutheran church located way out on it's own in this isolated area reputedly has what is regarded by some experts as arguably the best pipe organ in Australia with some of the world's top pipe organists making it a point to visit the Pella church just to play the pipe organ.