Ed Leedskalnin spent nearly 30 years cutting and moving 1,100 tons of Florida limestone mostly alone at night; he died in 1951 without fully revealing his methods

For almost three decades, Edward Leedskalnin labored on his project without many people witnessing him doing so. This was because he constructed his creation mostly at night at a place in South Florida where he moved stones weighing more than the capacity of many industrial cranes of today. At the time of his death on December 7, 1951, he had managed to erect a structure made up of limestone, which he himself never managed to explain how.

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