Strawberry Mountain ( an extinct volcano ), the Granite peaks and boulders of the Elkhorn Mountains, and numerous rim rocks, lava flows and Basalt outcrops are evidence of the historic volcanic activity in the region.

Granite boulders are strewn across the county.

The Museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.

Granite millstones were quarried in the early Iron Age, and under the Romans stone was quarried for building in Leicester.

Granite quarries were also opened here in 1829 by the proprietors of a competitor canal, the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal between Havre de Grace, Maryland and Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, for canal construction projects routed along the opposite bank of the Susquehanna.

Many historic buildings were demolished, including the Old City Hall, the 150-year-old Troy Mills, the Second Granite Block ( built after the 1928 fire ), as well as other 19th century brick-and-mortar buildings near Old City Hall.

The Granite Glass Company and the New Granite Glass Works were located in Mill Village, near the present town center.

By 1896, there were enough residents to petition the state of a school district ( Granite Falls District # 1 )

On July 25, 2000, the city of Granite Falls and Yellow Medicine County were hit by a powerful tornado.

Granite blocks, originally used on the U. S. side, were given to the Windsor Parks & Recreation Department, and now grace many of the pathways in Windsor parks

Granite stones from the original bridge were subsequently " presented to various parts of the British world to further historic links in the British Commonwealth of Nations ".

Nine sculptures in Marble and Granite were carved by sculptors from France, USA, Japan and Australia.

On December 3, the final voting results were announced: New Hampshire Fisher Cats ( 1, 574 votes-24. 5 %), Manchester Millers ( 1, 552 votes-24. 1 %), Granite State Mountain Men ( 1, 382 vote-21. 5 %), New Hampshire Granite ( 1, 302 votes-20. 2 %), and New Hampshire Primaries ( 627 votes-9. 7 %).

Cascade, Garnet, Death and Granite Canyons were all carved by successive periods of glaciation.

In early 2008 the buildings on the eastern half of Granite Block were demolished in preparation for construction ; Craig Mecham claims that the buildings " not safe " due to their age.

About the same time two whaling stations were established, one at the Bluff ( Rosetta Head ) and the other near the point opposite Granite Island.

Monroe and Lake Stevens joined the system in 1977, and two years later they were joined by Stanwood, Granite Falls, Mukilteo, and Sultan.

Granite insets, designed in consultation with the local Māori ( Ngati Whatua iwi ), as well as recycled redchip pavers from the existing footpath, were used to denote special areas-such as those related to the existence of the old Waihorotiu Stream.

The service continued to operate on Granite Island itself until 1956, when the cars were disposed of.

Her parents were concerned for the welfare and education of their children in such an isolated location as Granite Downs where there was no school, and at an early age the children were taken by their parents to the United Aborigines ' Mission in Oodnadatta run by the Baptist Church.

Both were offered with either one-piece cast underframes from General Steel Castings of Granite City, Illinois, denoted by ' C ' after the power identifier, and fabricated, welded underframes built by EMC themselves, denoted by ' W '.

Quarries for trap rock were operated in the area from 1841 to 1896, leading to the community's name being changed first to Granite Village, then Graniteville.

were reconstructed by the dedicated devotees under the guidance of Trustee and Chief Priest Vedamoorthi Jayarama Acharya ; Sri P Ramadas Madmannaya ( Pavithrapani ), MD of AMS Ltd, Bangalore ; Trustee Sri Raghu T Shetty of Guruprasad, Mulladka, the Man who contributed the major constructions and various religious, cultural and daily Annadana, including the New Granite Sanctum Sanctoriums for Sri Mahaganapathi and Sri Durgaparameshwari and the Managing Trustee, Mundkur Nadiguthu Jagadishchandra Hegde along with other trustees.

There are also nightly tours of Granite Island.

In German, this area is also known as the Granite and Gneiss Plateau ( Granit-und Gneisplateau ).

With its many reductions in size, Lake County's designated county seat also changed multiple times within just a few years, residing successively in Oro City ( from 1861 ), Lourette ( from 1863 ), Dayton ( from 1866 ), and Granite ( from 1868 ).

During the 1970s and 1980s, Billings also saw the completion of other important buildings in its downtown core ; the Norwest Building ( now Wells Fargo ), Granite Tower, Sage Tower the MetraPark arena, the TransWestern Center, many new city owned parking garages and the First Interstate Tower, now the tallest building in a five state area.

Granite is also home to Oklahoma State Reformatory, a medium-security corrections facility also boasting some maximum and minimum-security housing for adult male inmates.

It has 2 elementary schools ( Lincoln and Wilson ) and it also only has 1 junior high school school ( Granite Park ) known for its great programs and faculty.

Construction booms through Snohomish and King counties also meant jobs at the gravel pits dotted around Granite Falls.

They also performed songs cut for " 20 Granite Creek ".

A Redstone also launched another Granite Stater into suborbital flight: Alan Shepard of Derry.

The ghost town of Granite Quarry was also located partially in the town,

Granite and mineral water are also important industries.

Bechtolsheim founded Kealia in early 2001 with Stanford Professor David Cheriton, who was also a partner in Granite Systems, to work on advanced server technologies using the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices.

The towns of Granite Shoals, Kingsland, Horseshoe Bay, Highland Haven, and Sunrise Beach are located on the lake, which is also near Marble Falls.

The Blue Bell Tavern, which was also a hotel, served as the headquarters of the Granite Railway and it was later named the Russell House.

Stone Mountain, also known locally as Our Granite Mother, is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States.

Underdog also regularly faced enemies from alien worlds, such as the Marbleheads from Planet Granite, the Magnet Planet, home to the Magnet Men, the Planet of Zot, and the Saucer Planet, home to the Flying Sorcerers.

The United States Congress authorized the San Francisco Mint ( also known as " The Granite Lady ") to issue a series of five commemorative coins.

Interstate 93 ( which is also Route 3 and U. S. 1 ) runs north-south through Dorchester between Quincy, Massachusetts and downtown Boston, providing access to the eastern edge of Dorchester at Columbia Road, Morrissey Boulevard ( northbound only ), Neponset Circle ( southbound only ), and Granite Avenue ( with additional southbound on-ramps at Freeport Street and from Morrissey Blvd at Neponset ).

Granite was exported by rail to ports like Liverpool and the cities of England and by sea from the two quarrying jetties to Liverpool and also to a number of European ports such as Hamburg.

To the Malays, the island is also known as Pulau Batu Ubin, or " Granite Stone Island ".

Michell Hut provides emergency refuge, toilet, camp sites and a resting area before the final climb up to where the Eskdale meets Granite Flat Spur at the treeline, where there is also a good, but exposed campsite

Granite Flat Spur also provides access to the summit.