Historical and cultural sites in Elbert County include the Nancy Hart cabin, the Dan Tucker gravesite, the Stephen Heard Cemetery, the Petersburg Township site, Vans Creek Church, the Elbert County Courthouse, the Elberton Seaboard-Airline Depot, the Rock Gym, the Granite Bowl, the Elberton Granite Museum and Exhibit, the Richard B. Russell Dam, the Elbert Theatre, the Georgia Guidestones, Richard B. Russell State Park, and Bobby Brown State Park.

* John Rozier, ed., The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird ( Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988 ).

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

* View from the top of Stone Mountain looking Northeast ( 1934 ) and Granite Quarry at Stone Mountain ( 1913 ) from the Georgia Geological Survey photographs in the collection of the Georgia Archives.

* The Georgia Guidestone Guidebook — Elberton Granite ( 1981 )

Mail sent to all parts of Granite Hills is addressed to El Cajon, California.

They sent hundreds of thousands of bare-rooted trees all over Australia, to the Goulburn, the Murray Valley and Sunraysia in Victoria, the Riverina districts of New South Wales and to the Granite Belt area, centred on Stanthorpe in Queensland.

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 boulders were also taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building ( such material is known as moorstone ).

Granite is nearly always massive ( lacking internal structures ), hard and tough, and therefore it has gained widespread use as a construction stone.

Granite is a hard stone and requires skill to carve by hand.

Granite has been extensively used as a dimension stone and as flooring tiles in public and commercial buildings and monuments.

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

Roxbury's granite quarries, among the most extensive in the Granite State at the time, provided some of the stone for the capitol building of New York in Albany.

Granite began as the site of the stone quarry for the Salt Lake Temple in 1859.

Image: Bradley_1930_dreikanter. jpg | Granite stone polished by windblown sand, Sweetwater County, Wyoming ( Bradley, 1930 )

Granite is a hard stone and requires skill to carve by hand.

Granite, basalt and some metamorphic stone is difficult to carve even with iron or steel tools ; usually tungsten carbide tipped tools are used, although abrasives still work well.

Beebe granite or " Stanstead Grey Granite " is famous for its use in architectural design ; the production of granite from the region may well be the largest industry, with much of the stone being used in the construction of tombstones and memorials.

Granite stone with a motive of shattered forest

World comparison for dimension stone demand: The DSAN World Demand Index for ( finished ) Granite was 227 in 2006, 247 in 2007, and 249 in 2008, and the World Demand Index for ( finished ) Marble was 200 in 2006, 248 in 2007, and 272 in 2008.

Even older than plateways were wagonways which used wooden rails, or ( occasionally ) grooves cut in stone blocks such as at the Haytor Granite Tramway, to guide the wheels and to reduce friction.

Granite block is usually processed into slabs and after can be cut and shaped by a cutting center.

At this time Deer Lodge County ( today Deer Lodge, Granite, Silver Bow, and Powell Counties ) was cut out of Missoula.

Mines needed a railroad and the settlers of Granite Falls stepped up to provide railroad ties cut from the nearby forests, supplies for fortune seeking miners, a doctor, and other necessities.

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

In 2007, the Grade 2 listed structure suffered considerable damage by a developer who cut several holes into the Cornish Granite of the southern approach of the bridge

John Templer, rector of Teigngrace, built the Haytor Granite Tramway, which had rails cut from granite, connecting the granite quarries of Haytor to the canal.

Napoleon Granite, quarried in Sweden, cut and polished in Italy, and then imported to Canada, was used for the exterior and some of the interior surfaces.

To get the cut slabs to a wharf on the Neponset River, a distance of two and three-quarters miles, the first commercial railway in the United States was built — the Granite Railway -- over which, on the morning of October 7, 1826, the first horse-drawn cars passed, under the direction of a young engineer by the name of Gridley Bryant.

Its design period was protracted, with various development problems exacerbated by the fact that designers lacked information on the actual size and weight of the proposed boosted-fission warhead Green Bamboo, or its likely thermonuclear successor derived from the Granite series.

Granite differs from granodiorite in that at least 35 % of the feldspar in granite is alkali feldspar as opposed to plagioclase ; it is the alkali feldspar that gives many granites a distinctive pink color.

Granite is an igneous rock and is formed from magma.

Aberdeen in Scotland, which is constructed principally from local granite, is known as " The Granite City ".

The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s.

This granite was transported from the moor via the Haytor Granite Tramway, stretches of which are still visible.

However, the population on Granite Island ( which is a fox, cat and dog-free island ) has been severely depleted, from around 2000 penguins in the year of 2001 down to 146 in 2009.

Granite taken from Lamorna cove has been widely used in construction, most notably in the Thames Embankment.

To the northwest, the Wichita Mountains consist primarily of Wichita Granite Group from the Cambrian era.

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 ).

The place name, Granite Bay, is derived from a bay in Folsom Lake on the east side of the town.

The racial makeup of Granite Bay was 17, 960 ( 88. 0 %) White, 148 ( 0. 7 %) African American, 138 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 1, 152 ( 5. 6 %) Asian, 28 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 222 ( 1. 1 %) from other races, and 754 ( 3. 7 %) from two or more races.

Folsom is named for Joseph Libbey Folsom who purchased Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of a San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff, and laid out the town called Granite City, mostly occupied by gold miners seeking fortune in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

The lake is an estimated from Granite Bay to the most southern point of Folsom Lake.

The racial makeup of Granite Hills was 2, 617 ( 86. 2 %) White, 43 ( 1. 4 %) African American, 26 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 45 ( 1. 5 %) Asian, 9 ( 0. 3 %) Pacific Islander, 158 ( 5. 2 %) from other races, and 137 ( 4. 5 %) from two or more races.

* Granite Works, LLC-Located at 133 William Donnelly Industrial Parkway, the company fabricates granite, quartz and solid surface countertops using supplies from international locations such as Brazil, Italy and China.

In 1881, Thomas M. Holt built a power dam across the river and a second mill across the street from Granite.

To the northwest, the Wichita Mountains consist primarily of Wichita Granite Group from the Cambrian era.