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North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex is a historic granite quarry and national historic district located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 8 contributing structures in an area approximately one mile long and 1/3 mile wide.
The Michael Braun House was built over seven years on 274 acres that Braun purchased after moving to the area in the late 1750s. 3500 tons of granite came from a quarry in the area. [3] The house is a two-story four-bay-wide stone house with two end chimneys and one-story frame kitchen wing on east side.
Flat Rock is a census-designated place (CDP) in Surry County, North Carolina, United States.The name "Flat Rock" stems from the community's granite quarry. The granite quarry is the largest open-face granite quarry in the world, and has been mined continuously since 1889 by the North Carolina Granite Corporation.
This is the world's largest "deep hole" granite quarry. It produces Devonian Barre granite. Graniteville is home of its owner, the 1885-founded Rock of Ages Corporation, since 2016 part of Polycor, Inc., the largest producer of marble and granite in North America. Quarrying continues, and the quarry may be visited by the public.
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In the end, 1,200 tons (1.1 million kg) of granite, more than 2,000 tons (1.8 million kg) of gravel, more than 800 tons (730,000 kg) of sand and almost 400 tons (360,000 kg) of cement were used to build the structure, along with numerous other materials. It is constructed of granite mined at the North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex.
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Lilesville, North Carolina The Lilesville Granite , also referred to as the Lilesville pluton , is a ring-shaped body of granitic rock that spans about 94 square miles (240 km 2 ) [ 1 ] in Anson, Richmond, and Montgomery Counties in southern North Carolina.