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  2. Granite, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Mining this granite was the basis for quarries which were located on both sides of the river in the vicinity. Granite stone quarried nearby was used to construct the State, War and Navy building in Washington, D.C., and to build the 3-foot granite walls of Richmond's Gothic City Hall at 10th and Capitol Streets which was completed in 1894. (It ...

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Loudoun ...

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    The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1] There are 99 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 7 National Historic Landmarks. Another property was once listed but has been removed.

  4. A hard stop: New ownership closes Concord's Swenson Granite ...

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    Kurt Swenson was the fourth generation of his family to own and operate Swenson Granite Co. and its quarry on Concord's Rattlesnake Hill. ... That includes the original 1883 bill of sale for ...

  5. Boundary markers of the original District of Columbia

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    Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...

  6. A hard stop: No more granite from Granite State - AOL

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    Jul. 5—CONCORD It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. But last month, the last commercial granite quarry in New Hampshire was quietly shut ...

  7. Pietersite - Wikipedia

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    Originating from Namibia and China, where it is mined for use as a decorative stone due to its chaotic chatoyancy and brecciated structure. Ranging in colour from brownish-red, to blue-grey, and chatoyant yellow. The Chinese variety are predominantly a reddish-brown, with regions of chatoyant blue and yellow.

  8. Concord, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 03:31 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Crednal - Wikipedia

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    Crednal is a historic home located near Unison, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.The building is an example of an early-19th-century, Federal-style, two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling built in 1814, that was constructed around an existing 18th-century, vernacular, residential stone core.