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2. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Burns Quarry, near Carrollton, Georgia, NRHP-listed. Address-restricted archeological site, NRHP-listed in Carroll County; Stone Mountain, Georgia, site of granite quarrying from the 1830s. Its granite was used in the locks of the Panama Canal and in steps to the U.S. Capitol building.

3. Quincy Quarries Reservation - Wikipedia

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   In 1985, Boston's Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres, including Granite Railway Quarry, as the Quincy Quarries Reservation. A solution to the public safety problem was finally found with the massive Big Dig highway project in Boston. Dirt from the new highway tunnels was trucked in to fill the main quarries.

4. Norcross Brothers Granite Quarry - Wikipedia

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   The Norcross Brothers Granite Quarry, more recently the Castellucci Quarry, is a historic granite quarry on Quarry Road in Branford, Connecticut.Opened in 1887 by the Norcross Brothers construction firm, it supplied granite to a number of high-profile construction projects, including the Statue of Liberty and the Marshall Field and Company Building, and was in operation until 1980.

5. List of national historic sites and historical parks of the ...

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   The Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in Scranton, Pennsylvania, were built between 1899 and 1902, with a working turntable and a roundhouse added sometime in the 1930s. The current site is mostly recreations of these structures used to house F. Nelson Blount's donated collection of steam engines and railroad cars .

6. Glacial erratic boulders of King County, Washington - Wikipedia

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   Glacial erratic boulders of King County are large glacial erratic boulders of rock which were moved into King County, Washington by glacial action during previous ice ages.. The Pleistocene ice age glaciation of Puget Sound created many of the geographical features of the region, including Puget Sound itself, [1] and the erratics are one of the remnants of that age. [2]

7. 11 benefits of chia seeds from gut health to weight loss - AOL

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   Among their near-medicinal properties—thanks to their polyunsaturated fatty acids, protein, and fiber, in particular—according to researchers at Oregon State: Improved heart health and cholesterol