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Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road. Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is located on the site.
Jasper Stone Company and Quarry, Jasper, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. Quarry established c. 1890, an early regional source of Sioux Quartzite for construction, and since World War I a leading international producer of silicon dioxide for industrial abrasives. [4] Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit, Kerrick, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. A molding sand quarry.
In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons [6] [2] [3] apartments and Marble Cliff Crossing, a 100 single-family and 60 double-family subdivision built between 1998 and 2003. [7]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
The early economy was based on farming, although it soon included gristmills, sawmills and boat building, and in later years grapes, railroads, stone quarries and industry became important. Its original territory was the site of Standard Oil billionaire John D. Rockefeller's Forest Hill country estate, and was the birthplace of General Electric ...
In 1849, each of the United States was asked to supply a block of stone for the construction of the Washington Monument.Because McDonald's quarry was known as one of Ohio's best sources of limestone, state geologists decided to supply a block of McDonald stone, and a Xenia mason produced a block measuring 6 × 3 × 0.75 feet (1.83 × 0.91 × 0.23 m) to be sent to Washington, D.C., [5] where it ...
The firm began quarry operations on Kelley's Island in 1886 and was dissolved in the early 1960s. Company operations were located in Ohio, New York, and West Virginia. Main sites were Kelley's Island (1886-1940) and nearby Marblehead, Ohio (1890s-1955).
Quasius Quarry, near the Sheboygan River in Rhine, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed as the Sheboygan Valley Land and Lime Company. Includes a limestone quarry and kilns for producing quicklime, built in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s. William Johnston Lime Kiln, Saylesville, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed; Hadfield Company Lime Kilns, Waukesha, Wisconsin, NRHP ...