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Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Laboratory, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Laboratory, County Route 27, Millville, ...

Significance: The Laboratory is an intact surviving example of 20th-century industrial vernacular design found at the Standard Quarry. Survey number: HAER WV-49-Q

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Reservoir, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Reservoir, County Route 27, Millville, J...

Significance: The Reservoir is an intact surviving example of the type of industrial structure used to contain large amounts of water for dolomite manufacturing processes. Survey number: HAER WV-49-I

Vermont Marble Quarry, Abandoned Mine Site, Limestone Hills, 2.25 miles Northeast of Radersburg, Radersburg, Broadwater County, MT

Vermont Marble Quarry, Abandoned Mine Site, Limestone Hills, 2.25 mile...

Significance: The quarry was the only place where Meagher limestone was quarried. The gray limestone is mottled with yellowish-orange spots and was marketed as "Montana Black and Gold Marble." It was used for f... More

Vermont Marble Quarry, Abandoned Mine Site, Limestone Hills, 2.25 miles Northeast of Radersburg, Radersburg, Broadwater County, MT

Vermont Marble Quarry, Abandoned Mine Site, Limestone Hills, 2.25 mile...

Significance: The quarry was the only place where Meagher limestone was quarried. The gray limestone is mottled with yellowish-orange spots and was marketed as "Montana Black and Gold Marble." It was used for f... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tank Farm, south of North Road between Merry & Quarry Lochs, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tan...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

Henry Krout Mill, House, Quarry Road at Creek Road, Bedminster, Bucks County, PA

Henry Krout Mill, House, Quarry Road at Creek Road, Bedminster, Bucks ...

Survey number: HABS PA-5597 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Henry Krout Mill, House, Quarry Road at Creek Road, Bedminster, Bucks County, PA

Henry Krout Mill, House, Quarry Road at Creek Road, Bedminster, Bucks ...

Survey number: HABS PA-5597 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Experiment Laboratory, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Experiment Laboratory, County Route 27, ...

Significance: The Experiment Laboratory is a partially intact example of 20th-century industrial vernacular design found at the Standard Quarry. Survey number: HAER WV-49-P

Wade Sand & Gravel Company, North Quarry, State Highway 78, Thomas, Jefferson County, AL

Wade Sand & Gravel Company, North Quarry, State Highway 78, Thomas, Je...

Public domain photograph of excavation, bulldozer, land management, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Main Supply Building, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Main Supply Building, County Route 27, M...

Significance: The Main Supply Building is a partially intact example of an industrial architectural type used for support structures at the Standard Quarry. Survey number: HAER WV-49-M

[Republic Marble quarry, near Knoxville, Tenn.]

[Republic Marble quarry, near Knoxville, Tenn.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Concord, N.H., loading granite, New England granite quarry]

[Concord, N.H., loading granite, New England granite quarry]

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Cafritz Quarry Rd. apartments, interiors and exteriors I

Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Cafritz Quarry Rd....

Public domain photograph of bedroom or living room, interior decor, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro quarry worker in limestone quarry near Frederick, Maryland

Negro quarry worker in limestone quarry near Frederick, Maryland

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A slate quarry near Castleton, Vermont

A slate quarry near Castleton, Vermont

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, column, chimney, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Drilling a blast hole and loading out rock in the quarry at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the Tennessee Valley Authority system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Drilling a bl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coming out of the mountains on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico into the Rio Grande River Valley. In the distance is a quarry on the mountainside where the railroad gets its rock for ballast

Coming out of the mountains on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 3, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 3, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associa... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Merry Point Barracks, Between North Road & Quarry Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Merry Point Barracks, Between North Roa...

Significance: It is historically associated with the Marry Points wharfs and Pearl Harbor's oil storage tanks, all built about 1924. This building was constructed as a barracks for the men working in this area.... More

The quarry village of El Abra - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

The quarry village of El Abra - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Granite Railway, Pine Hill Quarry to Neponset River, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

Granite Railway, Pine Hill Quarry to Neponset River, Quincy, Norfolk C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-30 Survey number: HABS MA-150 Building/structure dates: 1826 Initial Construction

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Standard Lime & Stone Quarry is a surviving example of an early 20th-century dolomite quarrying and processing site in the limestone-rich eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The extraction an... More

John Bly House, East side of County Road 857, just north of intersection with Quarry Run Road, Cheat Neck, Monongalia County, WV

John Bly House, East side of County Road 857, just north of intersecti...

Significance: Constructed in the mid-nineteenth century, the John Bly House functioned as a stagecoach stop on the Morgantown and Uniontown Turnpike, a major link between Uniontown, in Fayette County, Pennsylva... More

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, Lancaster County, PA

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, L...

Significance: The tied-through reinforced concrete arch Weaverland Bridge, built in 1916m, is a historically and technologically significant early and rare example in the State of Pennsylvania of a rainbow type... More

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, Lancaster County, PA

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, L...

Significance: The tied-through reinforced concrete arch Weaverland Bridge, built in 1916m, is a historically and technologically significant early and rare example in the State of Pennsylvania of a rainbow type... More

Pipestone National Monument, Rock Quarry, Park Entrance Road, Township 106N, Range 46W, Pipestone, Pipestone County, MN

Pipestone National Monument, Rock Quarry, Park Entrance Road, Township...

Significance: Complex geological site in which the underlying bedrock is a metamorphosed sandstone generally referred to as Sioux quartzite, regarded as early Ordovician in age. Significant as center of Indian... More

Gannts' Quarry, Quarry Road, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL

Gannts' Quarry, Quarry Road, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL

Significance: This quarry was worked before the Civil War, and produced a high quality marble. A stone from Gannt's Quarry was presented by the Masons of Alabama to the Washington Monument Society in 1851 and ... More

Laurel Hill Quarry, Incline Plane, Both sides of State Route 56, 2.4 miles East of State Route 711, Seward, Westmoreland County, PA

Laurel Hill Quarry, Incline Plane, Both sides of State Route 56, 2.4 m...

Significance: This inclined plane was constructed by the Conemaugh Stone Company to carry sandstone from its quarry at the crest of Laurel Hill to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at the base of the mountain. ... More

Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ

Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Pan...

Survey number: HABS CZ-4-A Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ
Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ
Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ

Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Pan...

Survey number: HABS CZ-4-A Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iron Springs Quarry, 150 feet west of Grand Loop Road, 20 miles east of U.S. Highway 287, West Thumb, Teton County, WY

Iron Springs Quarry, 150 feet west of Grand Loop Road, 20 miles east o...

Significance: The Iron Spring Quarry served as a source of rock and gravel for road construction and maintenance projects in Yellowstone National Park. Due to the feature's mundane nature, the historic record ... More

Vermont Marble Quarry, Abandoned Mine Site, Limestone Hills, 2.25 miles Northeast of Radersburg, Radersburg, Broadwater County, MT

Vermont Marble Quarry, Abandoned Mine Site, Limestone Hills, 2.25 mile...

Significance: The quarry was the only place where Meagher limestone was quarried. The gray limestone is mottled with yellowish-orange spots and was marketed as "Montana Black and Gold Marble." It was used for f... More

Men at work inside a mine. Idaho Springs, Co.

Men at work inside a mine. Idaho Springs, Co.

Photograph shows miners working by candlelight inside pit; man, atop ledge in back of shaft, stands next to mine car.

Quarry Scenes. No children were employed.  Location: Warren County--Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Quarry Scenes. No children were employed. Location: Warren County--Bo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baalbek. "Heliopolis." Hagar el Hubla. The great stone in the grand quarry weighing 1000 tons

Baalbek. "Heliopolis." Hagar el Hubla. The great stone in the grand qu...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

["Benvenuto," Robert Pim Butchart house, 800 Benvenuto Lane, Central Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Quarry garden]

["Benvenuto," Robert Pim Butchart house, 800 Benvenuto Lane, Central S...

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Building stone quarry at Dixon Springs pasture demonstration project. Robbs, Illinois

Building stone quarry at Dixon Springs pasture demonstration project. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a pope, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rock crusher at quarry. Tygart Valley, West Virginia

Rock crusher at quarry. Tygart Valley, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a dirt road, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a dirt road, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Henry W. Bagley, Bellehaven, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Quarry cottage, entrance hall

Henry W. Bagley, Bellehaven, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Quar...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, West Virginia. Farm Se...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Entrance facade

W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Entra...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Building, Nimitz & Edge Streets, near Quarry Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Building, Nimitz & Edge ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. As a Category 3 facility, it has been determined that Building No. 697 functioned as part of the Pearl Harbo... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Building, Nimitz & Edge Streets, near Quarry Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Building, Nimitz & Edge ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. As a Category 3 facility, it has been determined that Building No. 697 functioned as part of the Pearl Harbo... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 1, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 1, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associa... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 1, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 1, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associa... More

[Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families represented in photo. See special card and Kentucky report.  Location: [Warren County--Rockfield, Kentucky] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (str...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Secondary Crusher, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Secondary Crusher, County Route 27, Mill...

Significance: The Secondary Crusher is an intact surviving example of the type of industrial machinery used during the initial phases of dolomite processing. Survey number: HAER WV-49-B

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Standard Lime & Stone Quarry is a surviving example of an early 20th-century dolomite quarrying and processing site in the limestone-rich eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The extraction an... More

Old Croton Aqueduct, Quarry Railroad Bridge, Aqueduct Lane at Williams Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY

Old Croton Aqueduct, Quarry Railroad Bridge, Aqueduct Lane at Williams...

Significance: The Old Croton Aqueduct is an outstanding example of 19th century civil engineering and was New York City's first municipal water project. The Quarry Railroad Bridge is a representative example o... More

Old Croton Aqueduct, Quarry Railroad Bridge, Aqueduct Lane at Williams Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY

Old Croton Aqueduct, Quarry Railroad Bridge, Aqueduct Lane at Williams...

Significance: The Old Croton Aqueduct is an outstanding example of 19th century civil engineering and was New York City's first municipal water project. The Quarry Railroad Bridge is a representative example o... More

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, Lancaster County, PA

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, L...

Significance: The tied-through reinforced concrete arch Weaverland Bridge, built in 1916m, is a historically and technologically significant early and rare example in the State of Pennsylvania of a rainbow type... More

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Worker's House No. 3, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Worker's House No. 3, County Route 27, M...

Significance: Worker's House No. 3 is an intact surviving example of the vernacular domestic building tradition of company housing at the Standard Quarry. Survey number: HAER WV-49-V

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Kilns No. 4 & 5, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Kilns No. 4 & 5, County Route 27, Millvi...

Significance: The remains of Kilns No. 4 and 5 are an example of one type of furnace used during the firing phases of dolomite processing. Survey number: HAER WV-49-F

Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ
Clark & McCormack Quarry, Minnesota Highway 23 at Pine Street, Rockville, Stearns County, MN

Clark & McCormack Quarry, Minnesota Highway 23 at Pine Street, Rockvil...

Survey number: HAER MN-48 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tank Farm, south of North Road between Merry & Quarry Lochs, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tan...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associat... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associa... More

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Main Supply Building, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Main Supply Building, County Route 27, M...

Significance: The Main Supply Building is a partially intact example of an industrial architectural type used for support structures at the Standard Quarry. Survey number: HAER WV-49-M

[Quarrying granite, New England Granite Quarry, Concord, N.H.]

[Quarrying granite, New England Granite Quarry, Concord, N.H.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Worker's House No. 4, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Worker's House No. 4, County Route 27, M...

Significance: Worker's House No. 4 is an intact surviving example of the vernacular domestic building tradition of company housing at the Standard Quarry. Survey number: HAER WV-49-W

Henry W. Bagley, Bellehaven, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Quarry cottage, living room, to fireplace

Henry W. Bagley, Bellehaven, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Quar...

Public domain photograph of living room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock crusher at limestone quarry. Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Rock crusher at limestone quarry. Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virgi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys cooperating with Soil Conservation Service working limestone quarry. Vernon County, Wisconsin. Soil tests made show Vernon County to be lime deficient for the satisfactory growing of alfalfa

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys cooperating with Soil Conservat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ancient city, historic place, stone buildings architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sandstone Quarry. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Sandstone Quarry. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Stewart, Leslie Source of sandstone for buildings in the valley, located on the edge of Little Owyhee Desert The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project unde... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Submarine Base, Berthing Wharf S1, South Waterfront Road along north side of Quarry Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Submarine Base, Berthing Wharf S1...

Significance: The U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous ... More

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Raymond Mill Ruins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Raymond Mill Ruins, County Route 27, Mil...

Significance: The Raymond Mill ruins are the archeological remains of the building which housed grinding machines used in the initial stages of dolomite processing. Survey number: HAER WV-49-D

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Raymond Mill Ruins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Raymond Mill Ruins, County Route 27, Mil...

Significance: The Raymond Mill ruins are the archeological remains of the building which housed grinding machines used in the initial stages of dolomite processing. Survey number: HAER WV-49-D

Michael Braun House, State Route 2308, Granite Quarry, Rowan County, NC

Michael Braun House, State Route 2308, Granite Quarry, Rowan County, N...

Survey number: HABS NC-149 Building/structure dates: 1766 Initial Construction

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27...

Significance: The Tank and Settling Basin complex is an intact surviving example of an industrial architectural type used during one of the final stages of lime flux production. Survey number: HAER WV-49-H

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27...

Significance: The Tank and Settling Basin complex is an intact surviving example of an industrial architectural type used during one of the final stages of lime flux production. Survey number: HAER WV-49-H

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson Co...

Significance: The Standard Lime & Stone Quarry is a surviving example of an early 20th-century dolomite quarrying and processing site in the limestone-rich eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The extraction an... More

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, Lancaster County, PA

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, L...

Significance: The tied-through reinforced concrete arch Weaverland Bridge, built in 1916m, is a historically and technologically significant early and rare example in the State of Pennsylvania of a rainbow type... More

Gannts' Quarry, Quarry Road, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL

Gannts' Quarry, Quarry Road, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL

Significance: This quarry was worked before the Civil War, and produced a high quality marble. A stone from Gannt's Quarry was presented by the Masons of Alabama to the Washington Monument Society in 1851 and ... More

Laurel Hill Quarry, Incline Plane, Both sides of State Route 56, 2.4 miles East of State Route 711, Seward, Westmoreland County, PA

Laurel Hill Quarry, Incline Plane, Both sides of State Route 56, 2.4 m...

Significance: This inclined plane was constructed by the Conemaugh Stone Company to carry sandstone from its quarry at the crest of Laurel Hill to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at the base of the mountain. ... More

Laurel Hill Quarry, Incline Plane, Both sides of State Route 56, 2.4 miles East of State Route 711, Seward, Westmoreland County, PA

Laurel Hill Quarry, Incline Plane, Both sides of State Route 56, 2.4 m...

Significance: This inclined plane was constructed by the Conemaugh Stone Company to carry sandstone from its quarry at the crest of Laurel Hill to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at the base of the mountain. ... More

Quarry Heights, Officers' Quarters, Parkinson Lane, Balboa, Former Panama Canal Zone, CZ
Iron Springs Quarry, 150 feet west of Grand Loop Road, 20 miles east of U.S. Highway 287, West Thumb, Teton County, WY

Iron Springs Quarry, 150 feet west of Grand Loop Road, 20 miles east o...

Significance: The Iron Spring Quarry served as a source of rock and gravel for road construction and maintenance projects in Yellowstone National Park. Due to the feature's mundane nature, the historic record ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Small Craft Berthing Piers, East end of Quarry Loch between Wharves M4 & S1, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Small Craft Berthing Piers, East end of...

Significance: The U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Small Craft Berthing Piers, East end of Quarry Loch between Wharves M4 & S1, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Small Craft Berthing Piers, East end of...

Significance: The U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tank Farm, south of North Road between Merry & Quarry Lochs, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tan...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tank Farm, south of North Road between Merry & Quarry Lochs, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bulk Fuel Storage Tank Type, Middle Tan...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous eve... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associat... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associat... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associat... More

Henry Krout Mill, House, Quarry Road at Creek Road, Bedminster, Bucks County, PA

Henry Krout Mill, House, Quarry Road at Creek Road, Bedminster, Bucks ...

Survey number: HABS PA-5597 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associa... More

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1...

Significance: Granite Hill Plantation historically consisted of 1,547 acres amassed by Andrew Jackson Lane, a wealthy Hancock County planter. The plantation was one of the largest in the county, and is associa... More

Vulcan Material Company, Calera Quarry, 1614 Highway 84, Calera, Shelby County, AL

Vulcan Material Company, Calera Quarry, 1614 Highway 84, Calera, Shelb...

Survey number: HAER AL-78 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned quarry. Conway, New Hampshire

Abandoned quarry. Conway, New Hampshire

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Whitmore and Morse granite quarry in East Barre, Vermont

The Whitmore and Morse granite quarry in East Barre, Vermont

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Rear facade

W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Rear ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

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