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Topsham quarries. The Topsham quarries are located in the Cathance Nature Preserve in Topsham, Maine. The group of quarries consist of Havey Quarry, Trenton Quarry, Alice Staples Quarry, and Square Pit. These quarries were dug in the 1800s for minerals. Today Havey Quarry is owned by Richard Carrier and is still used for collecting minerals.
Between the 1940s and 1980s, Maine also had a small peat industry in Penobscot, Sullivan, Deblois, Franklin, Friendship and Centerville. Significant quantities of aggregate are extracted from locations such as the Whitefield and Topsham gravel pits, Blue Rock quarry as well as the large Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston.
Topsham (US: / ˈtɒp.sʌm / ⓘ TOP-sum) is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Topsham was included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 9,560 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] It is part of the Portland – South Portland – Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.
The Maine Coastal Island Registry (CIR) catalogs 3,166 of these coastal islands, along with some notable inland freshwater islands, such as Frye Island in Sebago Lake. According to the most recent CIR data, 1,846 islands are registered to private owners, while 204 islands, which contain four or more structures, are exempt from registration.
The Frank J. Wood Bridge (known locally as The Green Bridge) is a three span, through truss bridge crossing over the Androscoggin River between the towns of Topsham and Brunswick, Maine, on U.S. Route 201. Opened in 1932, the bridge was originally called the Brunswick-Topsham bridge (as was its predecessor) but was officially renamed the Frank ...
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Lawrence Stifler and Mary McFadden. Bumpus quarry is a quarry in Oxford County, Maine, in the United States. It is primarily known for being the source of some of the largest beryl crystals ever found, up to 27 feet (8.2 meters) in length, weighing 26 tonnes (23.6 metric tons). [1]
Topsham quarries. Categories: Geology of Maine. Mining in the United States by state or territory. Economy of Maine. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.