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Hampton Cove is a master-planned housing subdivision located in Big Cove area of Huntsville, Alabama.Situated in the foothills and valleys of North Alabama's Cumberland Plateau, the 2,800-acre (11 km 2) Housing lies in the coves between Monte Sano Mountain and Green Mountain to the west, and Keel Mountain to the east.
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.
Rockton and Rion Railroad Historic District is a national historic district located near Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina, United States.The district encompasses forty contributing buildings, six contributing structures, and two contributing objects associated with the quarrying, finishing, and transporting of Winnsboro blue granite.
The area in the gap between Monte Sano and Keel mountains has been known as Big Cove since 1807. The name Big Cove was simply derived from a description of the surrounding geography. [2] Big Cove rests at the foot of Green, Huntsville, and Monte Sano mountains. It was named by John Clan Grayson, the first white settler and permanent resident of ...
The area has a history that can be dated back to the early 1800’s. Pioneers had drifted into the area from Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia with names such as Wood, Parker, Craig, Craft, Maples, Carpenter and Brannum, but a gentleman named Thomas J. Owens had migrated from Virginia and was the first to build his family home near an intersection of two roads.
The Huntsville metropolitan area's population was 514,465 in 2022, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in the state after the Birmingham metropolitan area. The Huntsville metro area, which includes Madison city and the separate Southeast Huntsville urban areas had a combined population of 349,231 people in 2020, which makes it ...
Area code Established Region Map Reference 205/659: 1947 November 12, 2019 Area code 205 covers the central and west central portions of the state including Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Hoover, Northport, Jasper, Oneonta, Clanton, and Pell City. Covered the entire state before the creation of Area code 334. Area code 659 is an overlay of 205.
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.