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Independence Rock is a large granite rock, approximately 130 feet (40 m) high, 1,900 feet (580 m) long, and 850 feet (260 m) wide, which is in southwestern Natrona County, Wyoming along Wyoming Highway 220. During the middle of the 19th century, it formed a prominent and well-known landmark on the Oregon, Mormon, and California emigrant trails.
Granite is a city in Grant County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The city had a population of 30 in 2020, down from 38 in 2010. [5] As of 2020, it is the fourth-smallest incorporated city by population in Oregon. The smaller cities were Shaniko (pop. 30), Lonerock (pop. 25), and nearby Greenhorn (pop. 3).
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.
The Ah Hee Diggings, also known as the Chinese Walls, are an area of some 60 acres (24 ha) of hand-stacked rock walls in Oregon, U.S., built by Chinese miners who worked for the Ah Hee Placer Mining Company along Granite Creek from 1867 to 1891 near present day Granite, Oregon.
This list of mines in Oregon summarizes the mines listed by the Geographic Names Information System. As of January 7, 2014, there are 595 entries. As of January 7, 2014, there are 595 entries. name
As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,233, [1] making it Oregon's fourth-least populous county. The county seat is Canyon City. [2] It is named for President Ulysses S. Grant, [3] who served as an army officer in the Oregon Territory, and at the time of the county's creation was a Union general in the American Civil War.
The granite that forms the nearby Aldrich Mountains intruded into that region during the Early Cretaceous period. That event formed gold veins throughout the greater Blue Mountain region. This intrusion was followed by periods of regional volcanism and erosion, representing the last 60 million years.
The newspaper article credits Smith with "discovering" the rock. Another story claims the rock was named after a soldier named Smith who fell to his death from the rock in 1863 while his unit was camped nearby. [2] [3] The State of Oregon obtained the park property between 1960 and 1975 from the City of Redmond and Harry and Diane Kem. [4]