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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Tennessee

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    The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]

  3. Cumberland Homesteads - Wikipedia

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    Crab orchard stone being quarried for Cumberland Homesteads construction. Over 20,000 acres (81 km 2) of land south of Crossville were purchased from the Missouri Land Company, and Cumberland Homesteads, Inc., was created to administer the project. [4] First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at Cumberland Homesteads in 1935

  4. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of archaeological sites in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Noel Stone-Grave Cemetery/Cain's Chapel: 40DV3 1981 East Nashville Mounds: 40DV4 Mississippian 1868, 1992 French Lick: 40DV5 Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian 1821, 1860s, 1880s, 1992, 2014 Mississippian features partially excavated during construction of First Tennessee Ball Park in 2014. Parts of the site are intact. Widemeier Site: 40DV9

  6. Crossville, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Crossville has long been a great crossroads of East and Middle Tennessee. Crossville is located at the center of Cumberland County at (35.954221, -85.031267 The city is situated atop the Cumberland Plateau amid the headwaters of the Obed River, which slices a gorge north of Crossville en route to its confluence with the Emory River to the northeast.

  7. Tennessee marble - Wikipedia

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    Quarried block of pink Tennessee marble. Tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Long esteemed by architects and builders for its pinkish-gray color and the ease with which it is polished, the stone has been used in the construction of numerous notable buildings and monuments throughout the United States and Canada ...

  8. Geology of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Crooked Fork Group, including Wartburg Sandstone, Glenmary Shale, Coalfield Sandstone, Burnt Mill Shale, Crossville Sandstone, Dorton Shale Crab Orchard Mountains Group , including Rockcastle Conglomerate, Vandever Formation, Newton Sandstone, Whitwell Shale, and Sewanee Conglomerate

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Blount ...

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    John J. Craig Quarry Historic District: July 25, 1989 ... TN 73: Townsend: Destroyed by fire in September, 1986. 5: McNutt-McReynolds House: July 25, 1989