"The Fence the Indians Made"

Somehow or other, looking for something else entirely, I got to the Google Books digital copy of

"A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut" By Samuel Orcutt, published in 1886 by the Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor]
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Sep 6, 2006

There's lots of interesting stuff, but "the fence the Indians made" just sort of jumped out at me, as the machinery moves in on the stone wall "of no great significance..."