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  2. Granite City, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Granite City is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, within the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. The population was 27,549 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] making it the third-largest city in the Metro East and Southern Illinois regions, behind Belleville and O'Fallon .

  3. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Granite City Township, Madison County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Granite City Township was founded in 1896, close to the Mississippi River. It quickly became an industrialized city due to its access to the Mississippi River and railroads. [1] Granite City's population has long relied on its steel mill (Granite City Steel) as a source of income. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,549. [2

  5. Rhodes State Office Tower - Wikipedia

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    The foundation reaches 100 feet (30 m) below the surface to the limestone bedrock. The entire exterior of the Rhodes Tower, the surrounding sidewalk, and the lower part of the building's interior are lined with coarse-grained Milbank granite, quarried in Milbank, South Dakota by the Cold Spring Granite Company and branded as Carnelian granite ...

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  7. Dr. Samuel Mitchel Smith and Sons Memorial Fountain

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    The bronze and granite memorial is dedicated to Samuel Mitchel Smith, Surgeon General of Ohio during the American Civil War, and the first academic professor for the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States. The statue stood at Columbus's downtown center at Broad and High streets from 1880 to 1915.

  8. Charles M. Price Support Center - Wikipedia

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    Charles M. Price Support Center was a United States Army base located in Granite City, Illinois, across the Mississippi River directly to the east of St. Louis. Originally selected as a site for a U.S. Army supply depot during World War I, it was not established until World War II as the Granite City Engineer Depot. The installation employed up ...

  9. General Steel Industries - Wikipedia

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    General Steel Castings advertisement for cast steel locomotive frames. In 1929, General Steel Castings Corp. acquired the Commonwealth Steel Company, a Granite City, Illinois based maker of steel, steel castings, and railroad supplies that had been founded in 1901, [14] and had become a supplier to railroad companies.