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W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.
Some mines continued to operate into the 1960s, but the volume never reached the same levels as in the earlier boom years. A defining event was the last shipment of iron ore in August 1967 to Granite City Steel in Illinois. Approximately 325 million tons of this ore was mined from around 40 individual mines between 1877 and 1967.
Granite Bluff is an unincorporated community between Meriman and Randville at [ 6 ] Merriman is an unincorporated community on M-95 about seven miles north of Iron Mountain at 45°55′03″N 88°03′20″W / 45.91750°N 88.05556°W / 45.91750; -88.05556
Granite Island is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) island in Lake Superior located about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Built upon it is the Granite Island Lighthouse , also known as Granite Island Light Station, [ 1 ] "one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on Lake Superior". [ 2 ]
Greenmead Historical Park, also known as Greenmead Farms, is a 3.2-acre (1.3 ha) historic park located at 38125 Base Line Rd., Livonia, Michigan.It includes the 1841 Greek Revival Simmons House, six other structures contributing to the historic nature of the property, and additional buildings moved from other locations.
Livonia (/ l ə ˈ v oʊ n j ə / lə-VOHN-yə) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [4] A western suburb of Detroit, Livonia is located roughly 20 miles (32.2 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 95,535. [5]
The best fossil exposures are found at limestone quarries along the belt, which supply local concrete demand. Toward the end of the Middle Devonian, the marine environment shifted toward black marine shale deposition, of the Olentangy Shale and Ohio Shale.
Turnip Rock is a small geological formation in Michigan. It is a stack [1] located in Lake Huron, in shallow water a few yards offshore, near the rock called the Thumbnail which is the extreme tip of Pointe Aux Barques, a small peninsula in Pointe Aux Barques Township [2] which in turn is the extreme tip of The Thumb, a large peninsula comprising several counties in eastern Michigan.