The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust have been active in planting reeds to improve the habitat, which are grown at Langford Quarry in a joint venture between Tarmac and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

This bandstand, which stands below the entrance to the Quarry in Shrewsbury, was built in 1879 and donated to the park by the Shropshire Horticultural Society.

Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.

The Chelmscombe Quarry finished its work as a limestone quarry in the 1950s and was then used by the Central Electricity Generating Board as a Tower testing station.

A Neanderthal skull was discovered in Forbes ' Quarry in 1848, prior to the " original " discovery in the Neander Valley.

Among the leading quarries was the Carbaugh Run Rhyolite Quarry Site in Adams County, where as many as fifty small quarry pits are known.

A posthumous volume of previously-unseen materials was edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague and published by Agenda Editions as The Roman Quarry.

In a cavern just before the exit stairway leading to a building on the rue Dareau ( former ' rue des Catacombes ') above, one could see an example of the Quarry Inspection's work in the rest of Paris's underground caverns: its roof is two 11-metre high domes of naturally degraded, but reinforced, rock ; the dates painted into the highest point of each bear witness to what year the work to the collapsing cavern ceiling was done, and whether it has degraded since.

The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry.

Haines's marble was cut from the same Yule Quarry where the original gold-veined marble for the Tomb of the Unknowns was mined nearly 80 years ago.

One of these shelters, known as the Foxenden Quarry deep shelter, was built into the side of a disused chalk quarry.

Monsanto was the subject of an investigation by the Environmental Agency of the UK regarding pollution caused by disposal of PCBs and other toxic waste at Brofiscin Quarry, Groes Faen.

Following this discovery, the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company of Calcite was founded purchasing at Calcite, the new name for Crawford's Quarry.

Schools in Thurrock include ; The Ockendon Academy, Chafford Hundred Campus, Gable Hall School, Gateway Academy, Grays Convent High School, William Edwards School & Sports College, Grays School Media Arts College, Deneholm Primary, Little Thurrock Primary, Quarry Hill Infant and Junior, St Thomas Of Canterbury Catholic Primary, Stifford Clays Infant and Junior, Stifford Primary, Thameside Infant and Junior School, Tudor Court Primary School, Warren Primary School, Chafford Hundred Primary School, Woodside Primary School ( which was opened in 1952 as Tyrell's Infant and Junior Schools, the names being changed to avoid confusion with the neighbouring Torell's Secondary School ; the schools were later amalgamated into one primary school ) and Treetops School.

File: Gantt's Quarry Post Office. JPG | The old Gantts Quarry Post Office was moved to its current location at the corner of N. Norton Ave and W. 8th St. in Sylacauga, Alabama.

Probably the first airport was located off the Quarry Road, close to Highway 280 in the area where Pinecrest is today.

File: Gantt's Quarry Post Office. JPG | This Post Office was moved from the nearby ghost town of Gantts Quarry to its current location at the corner of N. Norton Ave and W. 8th St. in Sylacauga.

The Kimball and Cobb Stone Quarry, organized in 1888, was the first major business in the area that would later become the Village of Hodgkins.

The president of the Kimball and Cobb Stone Quarry was Jefferson Hodgkins, the man for whom the village was named.

Limestone from a nearby quarry, called the " Empire Quarry ", was used to build the Empire State Building in New York City.

The Oak Hill Quarry opened in 1872, producing a dark blue-gray granite that was used for paving stones.

Several granite quarries operated during this time, the largest of which was the Beattie Granite Quarry, near what is now North Quarry Street, near the corner of Locust.

These Sheridans took part in the attack on the Commandancia, initially supported by fire from Quarry Heights, and later displacing forward into the city.

Special Areas of Conservation, under the European Union Habitats Directive, in County Kilkenny includes Hugginstown Fen south-west of Ballyhale, The Loughans near Urlingford, Cullahill Mountain on the Castlecomer Plateau near Johnstown, Spahill and Clomantagh Hill which form part of an escarpment which links the Slieveardagh Hills with the Castlecomer Plateau, Galmoy Fen north of Johnstown, Lower River Suir south of Thurles, the freshwater stretches of the Barrow / River Nore and Thomastown Quarry, near Thomastown.

* The Leberfinger Quarry ( on Millview Mountain Rd northeast of Forksville ), in the Lock Haven Formation where brachiopod fossils, trace fossils, and plant fossils can be observed

The road crosses a stream, Mill Brook, into Hamburg, where County Route 517 splits from Route 23 by heading east on Quarry Road.

* Photographic Tour of the Bell Marble Quarry, Columbia, CA, on Stone Quarries and Beyond.

Developers built a major local shopping center, The Quarry Mall, on land vacated by the declining Motor Freight Companies in 1992.

* Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the wreck of the Andrea Doria Author Joseph Haberstroh-Although the author states that the Gilboa Quarry his character trains at is near Cincinnati he describes driving on Old State Route 224 and passing Gilboa's giant fiberglass bull.

* 1996: Due to student overpopulation of Quarry Hill Elementary School on Quarry Rd near Creamery Rd, Afton Elementary School was constructed in the adjacent lot.

In the north east of the peninsula on which North Queensferry stands is Cruiks Quarry, owned by Tarmac, where sand and gravel extraction is carried out.

* Bluestone quarry ( 1850s name ), later known as Greenmount Quarry ( 1850s to 1920s ), at Greenmount Hill on the west side of Greenmount National Park.

There is a disco on the green and a Quarry Party starting at 11pm with a Woodstock theme.

Located within the district are the port of Big Creek ( the main port of Belize's banana industry ), the peninsula and village of Placencia ( a popular tourist resort ), the villages of Alta Vista, Commerce Bight, Dancing Pool, Georgetown, Guana Church Bank, High Sand, Independence and Mango Creek, Kendal, Lagarto Bank, Maya Mopan, Middle Bank, Middlesex, Mullins River, New Home, Pomona, Quarry Hill, Rancho Grande, Red Bank, Regalia, Sarawee, Silver Creek Camp, Silk Grass, San Roman, Sittee and the Garifuna village of Hopkins on the Sittee River.

The Moruya Quarry, also known as the Government Quarry, opened in 1876 on the northern bank of the Moruya River.

Mathis retired after losing to Quarry in 1969, but returned in 1971 to box Muhammad Ali for the NABF belt, losing on points over 12 rounds.

St Luke's Church in Holtye Avenue on the Stone Quarry estate was built in 1954 to serve the northeast of the town.

These included the scandalous Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine ( Summer ), depicting two prostitutes under a tree, as well as the first of many hunting scenes Courbet was to paint during the remainder of his life: Hind at Bay in the Snow and The Quarry.

The Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, on the Sugiyama River within the city limits of Katsuyama, has yielded the Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis as well as an unnamed dromaeosaurid and a new sauropod.

In the tournament final, Jimmy Ellis decisioned Quarry on a split verdict to become new WBA Heavyweight Champion Of The World.

Quarry lost the fight on cuts via seventh-round technical knockout despite a tremendous effort in which he led in the early rounds.

At the time, Quarry was well ahead on the three judges ' scorecards.

Quarry, who had acted in various programs on ABC to this point, including ' Batman ', ' Adam-12 ', ' I Dream Of Jeannie ' and ' The Six Million Dollar Man ', also did boxing commentary for ABC's " Wide World Of Sports.