Quarries such as Willis Granite Products extract native red granite for use in headstones, memorials, and signs throughout the United States.

Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel.

Brand aptly notes that this evidence calls into question the idea of a 15 Year reign for Seti I and suggests that " Seti died after a ten to eleven year reign " because only two years would have passed between the opening of the Rock Quarries and the partial completion and decoration of these monuments.

* Isabel McBryde, " Kulin Greenstone Quarries: The Social Contexts of Production and Distribution for the Mt William Site ", World Archaeology, Vol.

Quarries in Oolitic, Bedford, and Bloomington contributed the materials for such iconic U. S. landmarks as the Empire State Building in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

Proposals were put forward in 2008 to expand the town with the building of 178 houses on Braidbar Quarries next to Huntly Park, involving the Park closing for a period of two years.

Quarries on the Bristol side of the gorge are now popular with climbers and are a habitat for Peregrine falcons and other wildlife.

Dolbadarn built for the Dinorwic Quarry | Dinorwic Slate Quarries in 1922 and now on the Llanberis Lake Railway

Sebastopol was bombarded for the third time on 6 June 1855 and Mamelon and the Quarries were captured by the Allies.

The local stone is suitable for various uses, and the Llanelwedd Quarries dominate the landscape on the north-east side of the village.

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.

Although the old Mundaring Loop was closed for passenger traffic in 1954, trains were still utilising the line to Boya, where the Mountain Quarries siding was still in use.

Conco Quarries brings in most of the raw material needed for production of concrete.

In 1987, a link was constructed with the B6254, to remove traffic for Over Kellet Quarries and Kirkby Lonsdale passing through Carnforth.

Quarries close to Kingoodie supplied the town with building stone for a number of centuries.

In addition to Thelkeld Quarry were Birkett Bank, Hill Top, Wanthwaite and Bram Crag Quarries, all of which were worked for granite.

In work overseen by the Inspector General of Quarries, Charles-Axel Guillaumot, the bones were deposited in a wide well dug in land bought from a property, " La maison de la Tombe Issoire " ( near a house with the same name ), and distributed throughout the underground caverns by workers below.

Some stones which make up the cathedral came from Old Sarum, others from the Chilmark Quarries from where they were most likely moved to the cathedral building site by ox-cart.

The bullet-riddled corpses of three teenaged Na Fianna scouts Edwin Hughes ( 17 ), Joseph Rogers ( 16 ) and Brendan Holohan ( 16 ) were found at The Quarries, Naas Road, Clondalkin, on 28 November 1922.

Quarries were established to extract the region's abundant slate, the quality of which won first prize at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

Quarries of the local blue lias stone were worked from as early as the 12th century to the end of the 19th century.

The North Shore Quarries are relatively complete as are the remains of medieval and Elizabethan slipways where wooden vessels were built before the industrial Dockyard and Admiralty town was built on the grid pattern of Pembroke Dock.

On 7 June 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, Gunner Arthur was in charge of the magazine in one of the left advanced batteries of the right attack, when the Quarries were taken.

Quarries were abandoned.

But the British were cut down by the Russian's murderous fire from the Redan into the Quarries.

On 20 October 1854 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea, a party of sharpshooters were being repulsed from the Quarries, and a private from the 44th Regiment was dangerously wounded.

Quarries were also carved out of the slopes, most notably on Breakneck Ridge and Bull Hill.

The portion now known as Yellow Gum Park was purchased by Reid Quarries Pty Ltd who quarried the area to produce materials that were used in the construction of many of Melbourne's early ' Sky Scrapers '.

In Attorney General v PYA Quarries Ltd. ( 1957 ) 2 QB 169 the issue was whether quarrying activities — which showered the neighbourhood with stones and splinters, and caused dust and vibrations — were a private nuisance affecting some of the residents ( which would have been civil ), but not a public nuisance affecting all Her Majesty's liege subjects living in the area.

In the 1870s, the Whitburn Coal Company bought the five local quarries, two of which were developed as the Lighthouse ( Marsden ) Quarries.

Quarries within the wood were a source of the distinctive Swithland Slate roofs found on many local buildings as well as the slate gravestones common in Leicestershire churchyards.

The Quarries were worked extensively in Romans times and the villa and bathhouse could well have belonged to the quarry owner.

The Furnace Brook Parkway exit also provides access to Ricciuti Drive and the Quincy Quarries Reservation as well as the eastern entrance to the Blue Hills Reservation Parkways.

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, the only U. S. National Monument in Texas, is also located near the city.

) The " Royal Quarries " ( see Zedekiah's Cave ) — not found in Scripture — is the name

Quarries inland at Trebarwith and Trevillet continued to be worked until the mid 20th century.

* “ A Glimpse of the Celebrated Stone Quarries at Bedford, Indiana ,” booklet by the Bedford Stone Quarries Co., Inc., circa late 1800s, on Stone Quarries and Beyond.

They are the most eastern crossing of the Brisbane River, the closest to Moreton Bay, crossing at the Quarries Reach, between Eagle Farm and Murarrie.

Cleopatra ’ s Needle is a 240-ton, 68 foot 10 inch, single shaft of red granite from the Assuân ( formerly Syene ) Quarries at the 1st Cataract of the Nile.

Wolseley served throughout the siege, where he was wounded at " the Quarries " on 7 June 1855, and again in the trenches on 30 August 1855, losing an eye.

In July 1855 at the Quarries, Crimea, a bandsman going to fetch water from a well in front of the advanced trench, was killed.

* Royalties from mineral extraction at Hatherton Colliery, Bloxwich ; Hatherton Colliery, Great Wyrley ; Serjeants Hill Colliery, Walsall ; Hatherton Lime Works, Walsall ; Walsall Old Lime Works ; Paddock Brickyard, Walsall ; Sutton Road Brickyard, Walsall ; Serjeants Hill Brickyard, Walsall ; Butts Brickyard, Walsall ; Old Brooks Brickyard, Walsall ; Long House Brickyard, Cannock ; Rumer Hill Brickyard, Cannock ; Penkridge Brickyard ; Wolgarstone Stone Quarry, Teddesley ; Wood Bank and Quarry Heath Stone Quarries, Teddesley ; Gravel Pit, Huntington ; Sand Pit at Hungry Hill, Teddesley.

In our opinion it was conduct which materially affected the reasonable comfort and convenience of a class of Her Majesty's subjects: see per Romer LJ in Attorney-General v PYA Quarries Ltd … It was a nuisance which was so widespread in its range, or so indiscriminate in its effect, that it would not be reasonable to expect one person to take proceedings on her own responsibility, but that they should be taken on the responsibility of the community at large: see Denning LJ ...

The local Wildlife Trust has a fifteen acre nature reserve at Collyweston Quarries where Lincolnshire limestone was quarried, to the north of the A43.

9365 / 1945, " Belvedere "; Isham Quarries, Northamptonshire, ( ex-Thomas Hill, Rotherham ): preserved at Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust

9369 / 1946, " Musketeer "; Isham Quarries, Northamptonshire, ( ex-Williams & Williams, Hooton ): preserved at Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust

He was hated by most convicts, and in October 1866 a convict named Connor attacked him with a pickaxe at the Fremantle Quarries, and only the swift action of a guard saved him.