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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]
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).
The Dugway Brook Watershed is a nine-square mile basin in Cleveland, Ohio and its east side suburbs, which drains storm runoff into Dugway Brook which is a direct tributary feeding into Lake Erie. Dugway Brook is one of the six greater " bluestone brooks" of Cuyahoga County , also including Dean Brook, Euclid Creek , Nine-Mile Creek, Pepper ...
M. C. Mulligan & Sons Quarry; Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site; Marengo warehouse; Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry; Mauna Kea Ice Age Reserve; McDonald Farm (Xenia, Ohio) Mega Cavern
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 ...
Peninsula was first settled in 1818 and was plotted in 1837 by Herman Bronson. It was a canal boat stop and home to several mills, stone quarries and boat yards, five hotels and 14 bars until 1887. More than 20 places in Peninsula are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.