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Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road. Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is located on the site.
Pepper, et al., hypothesized that the river flowed first into the Ohio basin before switching course to the Michigan basin, thus the Michigan Berea Sandstone would be slightly younger. [14] There is a downwarp in the Cincinnati arch, called the Ontario sag, that if it was present at the formation of Berea Sandstone, could mean that it formed a ...
M. C. Mulligan & Sons Quarry; Magothy Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site; Marengo warehouse; Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry; Mauna Kea Ice Age Reserve; McDonald Farm (Xenia, Ohio) Mega Cavern
In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons [6] [2] [3] apartments and Marble Cliff Crossing, a 100 single-family and 60 double-family subdivision built between 1998 and 2003. [7]
Jasper Stone Company and Quarry, Jasper, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. Quarry established c. 1890, an early regional source of Sioux Quartzite for construction, and since World War I a leading international producer of silicon dioxide for industrial abrasives. [4] Louis Hultgren House and Sand Pit, Kerrick, Minnesota, NRHP-listed. A molding sand quarry.
In 1849, each of the United States was asked to supply a block of stone for the construction of the Washington Monument.Because McDonald's quarry was known as one of Ohio's best sources of limestone, state geologists decided to supply a block of McDonald stone, and a Xenia mason produced a block measuring 6 × 3 × 0.75 feet (1.83 × 0.91 × 0.23 m) to be sent to Washington, D.C., [5] where it ...
The firm began quarry operations on Kelley's Island in 1886 and was dissolved in the early 1960s. Company operations were located in Ohio, New York, and West Virginia. Main sites were Kelley's Island (1886-1940) and nearby Marblehead, Ohio (1890s-1955).
The quarries also provided sandstone that was extensively used as a construction material, in the form of Berea dimension stone. Huge amounts of it came from Berea, and were used architecturally in many important buildings. [16] [19] [20] [21] [A] The quarries closed in the late 1930s, when concrete came into wide use for construction. Several ...