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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.
The Michael Braun House was built over seven years on 274 acres that Braun purchased after moving to the area in the late 1750s. 3500 tons of granite came from a quarry in the area. [3] The house is a two-story four-bay-wide stone house with two end chimneys and one-story frame kitchen wing on east side.
Granite Quarry: 1766 House Also called Old Stone House. Oldest building in Rowan County. [14] Chowan County Courthouse: Edenton: 1767 Courthouse Oldest courthouse in North Carolina. National Register of Historic Places, 1970. [15] St. Philip's Church: Brunswick Town: 1768 Church Single Brothers' House: Winston-Salem: 1769 House Part of Moravian ...
The Vance Monument was a late 19th-century granite obelisk in Asheville, North Carolina, that memorialized Zebulon Vance, a former North Carolina governor from the area. [1] The monument was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith and was an "iconic landmark" and key structure in the Downtown Asheville Historic District .
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 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.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Burke County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.