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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.
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.
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.
The city derived its name from a plantation in the vicinity. [7] Officially incorporated in 1885, Mount Airy quickly thrived due to the region's abundant natural resources, specifically granite and tobacco. [8] This led to the establishment of the North Carolina Granite Corporation, the world's largest open-face granite quarry. [9]
The Swensons purchased their first quarry in Hollis in 1885, and the granite quarry in Concord in 1904. A turn-of-the-century photograph shows a horse-drawn wagon hauling a load of granite.
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Soon after the town's incorporation, however, problems arose with mail delivery, since there was already another town in North Carolina named Woodsides. Because of this, in 1902, the post office changed its name to Granite Quarry, after the stone quarried in the area. The town's name was not officially changed until February 5, 1905. [4]
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