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Granite was used for setts on the St. Louis, Missouri | St. Louis Mississippi River | riverfront and for the piers of the Eads Bridge ( background )
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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.
These clubs became the Granite Club, and in 1885, the present Detroit Curling Club was organized.
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.
A most unusual use of granite was in the construction of the rails for the Haytor Granite Tramway, Devon, England, in 1820.
This granite was transported from the moor via the Haytor Granite Tramway, stretches of which are still visible.
It was completed in 1972 and raised the river level back to Lewiston, effectively making it the eastern end of the new reservoir, Lower Granite Lake.
Granite millstones were quarried in the early Iron Age, and under the Romans stone was quarried for building in Leicester.
At this time Deer Lodge County ( today Deer Lodge, Granite, Silver Bow, and Powell Counties ) was cut out of Missoula.
In 1905 Carnegie funds became available and with the help of the Board of Trade ( forerunner to the Chamber of Commerce ), and the Monrovia Women's Club, a bond issue was passed to purchase the Granite Bank Building to be used as a City Hall, and to acquire property for a public park.
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.
Joseph died in 1855, and Granite City was later renamed to Folsom in his honor.
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.
The city's namesake, Lake Berkeley (), was named after Mr. Coggins ' Berkeley Blue Granite Quarries in Elberton.
Port Deposit Granite was used in:
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.
Among the city's several firsts was the Granite Railway, the first commercial railroad in the United States.
Corduroy production began on May 1, 1930, and Granite was shipping finished goods by June of the same year.
According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name Granite was chosen when its post office was established in 1878, the name " Independence " already being used in Polk County, Oregon.
A. G. Tabor, who had staked the first mining claim on Granite Creek ( the Independence ) and was the only merchant in town at the time, served as the first postmaster.
The city of Granite was incorporated in April 1900 with Grant Thornburg as mayor.
Modern telephone service was extended to Granite in the year 2000.
He was one of the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham University.
Granite Shoals was incorporated as a city by a vote of area residents in 1966.
Granite and used
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 has been extensively used as a dimension stone and as flooring tiles in public and commercial buildings and monuments.
Granite taken from Lamorna cove has been widely used in construction, most notably in the Thames Embankment.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that is now Granite Falls was used by Native Americans to portage their canoes between fishing grounds.
Shortly after, it was then sold the Respondek Rail Corp of Granite City, IL and is now used on Respondek's Port Harbor Railroad subsidiary.
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 mortars and pestles are used in Southeast Asia, as well as Pakistan and India.
Granite from the area was used in the construction of most major dock-sides in Britain.
Granite continued to be used throughout the Medieval period ( see Dartmoor longhouse ) and into modern times.
Granite from the Wicklow Mountains has been used as a material for many buildings in Wicklow and Dublin and beyond.
Granite from Hay Tor was used to build Stover House which was completed by 1792.
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.
In September 1958 a decision was made to abandon the Granite type warheads intended for Yellow Sun Mk. 2 ( and Blue Steel, and Blue Streak MRBM ) and instead adopt the US W-28 warhead used in the US Mk-28 nuclear bomb.
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.
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, blasted and removed during construction of the harbor at Port Cartier was crushed and used as ballast on the first of the line, while local pit-run gravel was used for the remainder.
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.
The Granite Reef Diversion Dam, constructed near the confluence of the Salt and Verde rivers, does not actually hold back a reservoir but is used to divert water from those rivers into the system of canals feeding into the Phoenix area.
Kemnay Granite has been used in many famous buildings and structures, including ;
Granite workers from Kemnay helped to quarry and shape the Australian granite used in the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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