The posts were put up around 1981 at the suggestion of General Sung Hsin-lien, the then commanding officer of the Kinmen Defence Command, to hinder paratroop attacks by the Chinese communist forces.
石柱林是在民國七十年左右，為了防止中共傘兵部隊的空降行動，而由當時的金門防衛部司令宋心濂將軍建議興築的。