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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.
Mount Airy: Second set of boundaries represents a boundary increase of August 28, 2012; third set represent a boundary decrease of April 9, 2021; fourth set represent a boundary increase of April 27, 2021. 21: North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex: North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex: August 6, 1980
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.
World's largest open faced granite quarry, near Mount Airy. There were 3,667 households, out of which 24.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.9% were non-families. 38.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and ...
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The Swensons purchased their first quarry in Hollis in 1885, and the granite quarry in Concord in 1904. A turn-of-the-century photograph shows a horse-drawn wagon hauling a load of granite.
Mount Airy, North Carolina, known as "The Granite City", and site of NRHP-listed North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex, "the world's largest open faced granite quarry". It has been quarried since 1743 by the North Carolina Granite Corporation and predecessors. [1]
Pages in category "Mount Airy, North Carolina" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex; R.