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This a public gem mine located in the Piedmont of North Carolina in Alexander County, specifically in the town of Hiddenite. [2] At the mine, more than 63 different types of gems and minerals can be found including emeralds, amethyst, sapphire, aquamarine, topaz, garnet, as well as the stone Hiddenite, which is a stone only found in this local ...
Hiddenite Hiddenite. Hiddenite is a pale-to-emerald green variety of spodumene that is sometimes used as a gemstone. The first specimens of the hiddenite variety of spodumene were recovered circa 1879 near the settlement of White Plains, west of Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina. According to contemporary accounts, a man named ...
Although Stone had a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy, he turned it down, choosing instead to become an actor with a stock theater company headed by Helen Ross. [2] Hugh Stone was born in Burton, Ks. Joseph Wakefield Myers, MD was the town Doctor from 1913 to 1928.
The town of Hiddenite was incorporated in 1913, but its charter was repealed in 1919. Hiddenite was named for William Earl Hidden (1853–1918), a mineralogist sent to North Carolina by Thomas Edison to look for platinum. Hidden discovered the gem that came to be known as "hiddenite" in 1879 in mines nearby.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]
George Richard Tiller (August 8, 1941 – May 31, 2009) [3] was an American physician and abortion provider from Wichita, Kansas.He gained national attention as the medical director of Women's Health Care Services, which, at the time, was one of only three abortion clinics nationwide that provided late-term abortions.
Spring Creek Stone Arch Bridge: October 10, 2023 : Located in West Creswell Township, 2.5 mi. west of Arkansas City on 262nd Rd. Coordinates missing: Arkansas City vicinity: 19: Strother Field Tetrahedron Wind Indicator: April 14, 2015 : 22215 Tupper St. (Strother Field
George McGill (1879–1963), Kansas Senator; Wichita; Jerry Moran (born 1954), U.S. Representative and Senator; Plainville; Roger Noriega (born 1959), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Wichita; Gale Norton (born 1954), U.S. Secretary of the Interior; Wichita; Lawton Nuss (born 1952), State Supreme Court Justice ...