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Lynch Quarry Site, North Dakota, NRHP-listed and a U.S. National Historic Landmark, a flint quarry that was "a major source of flint found at archaeological sites across North America, and it has been estimated that the material was mined there from 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1600."
In 1836 Hubbard opened the first quarry on Kinzie Street. The site was abandoned because the stone was too deep and of poor quality. Fred Gardner opened a quarry in 1846, and Stephen Crary opened one in 1850. In the early 1900s, Brownell Improvement Company purchased the entire area. Colonel Hodgkins bought the property in 1920.
English: Abandoned Martin-Marietta limestone quarry (looking ~SW). Near Utica, Indiana. March 1988. File # 88c128. 35 mm Kodachrome. Plustek OpticFilm 7600i. Siverfast 8. Picture Window 6. Unsharp mask (radius 1, threshold 3, 90%). JPEG quality 95.
Here are six abandoned historic homes for sale that you can buy right now. Located in the quaint town of Milton, North Carolina, the Gordon-Brandon House was possibly built circa 1850 by a local ...
An abandoned mine refers to a former mining or quarrying operation that is no longer in use and has no responsible entity to finance the cost of remediation and/or restoration of the mine feature or site. Such mines are typically left unattended and may pose safety hazards or cause environmental damage without proper maintenance.
The Carthage Underground is a collection of marble quarries in Carthage, Missouri, most of which is owned by Americold.Americold holds 43,000,000 square feet (4,000,000 m 2) of the quarry, much of which is occupied by warehouses or factories, primarily for food storage.
Quasius Quarry, near the Sheboygan River in Rhine, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed as the Sheboygan Valley Land and Lime Company. Includes a limestone quarry and kilns for producing quicklime, built in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s. William Johnston Lime Kiln, Saylesville, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed; Hadfield Company Lime Kilns, Waukesha, Wisconsin, NRHP ...
The northern section of the original quarry remained in operation by American Aggregates Co. [8] [9] In 2017, Wagenbrenner Development purchased a 560-acre (230 ha) section of the former quarry, with the intention of remediating the site's brownfields to create a mixed-use development and the region's 20th Metro Park.