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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.
Map showing Surry County in North Carolina. This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. 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 ...
It is midway between the village of Goshen and Florida, at the junction of NY 17A and Quarry Road (Orange County Route 68), built into the side of a 580-foot (177 m) hill known as Mount Lookout. In the 1960s, archaeologists digging at the site found caves with artifacts left by hunter-gatherers 12,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
The state Forest Service has banned outdoor burning in 30 Western North Carolina counties in the wake of a spate of wildfires that have burned thousands of bone-dry acres.
Get the Mount Airy, NC local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites crunching through the snow in bulky coats -- not bunches of ...
Smoke plumes from the Clear Creek (left) and Locust Cove #2 wildfires as seen from Marion, NC on Nov. 30, 2023. Wildfire season is winding down as the weather cools and climate becomes more humid ...
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.
Collett Ridge Fire. The largest current wildfire in WNC — located near Andrews in the Cherokee County of Nantahala National Forest — has grown another 744 acres in a day, from 4,371 acres Nov ...