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2. North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex - Wikipedia

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   August 6, 1980. 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.

3. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Burns Quarry, near Carrollton, Georgia, NRHP-listed. Address-restricted archeological site, NRHP-listed in Carroll County; Stone Mountain, Georgia, site of granite quarrying from the 1830s. Its granite was used in the locks of the Panama Canal and in steps to the U.S. Capitol building.

4. Granite Mountain (Texas) - Wikipedia

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   Granite Mountain (Texas) Granite Mountain is a solid dome, also known as a bornhardt, of pink granite (pink granite is also known as Sunset Red) rising over 860 feet one mile west of Marble Falls, Texas. Since quarry operations began in the late 19th century, the distinctive pink-red colored rock has been used in the construction of the Texas ...

5. Quincy Quarries Reservation - Wikipedia

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   Quincy Quarries Reservation. The Quincy Quarries is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) public recreation area in Quincy, Massachusetts, commemorating the site of the Granite Railway —often credited as being the first railroad in the United States. [1] The former quarries produced granite for over a century, leaving problematic excavations that ultimately ...

6. Granite - Wikipedia

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   Granite (/ ˈɡrænɪt / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.

7. Granite Historic District - Wikipedia

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   September 22, 1994. Granite Historic District is a national historic district in Granite, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It comprises the focus of a rural quarrying community located in the Patapsco Valley of western Baltimore County, Maryland. It includes two churches, a school, a social hall, former commercial buildings, and ...