During the 1970 – 1978 restoration works and excavations inside the building, and under the nearby Muristan, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white meleke limestone was struck.

In 1874 the locality was named The Crushers after the name of the railway station that served a nearby quarry.

The city then became a quarry to build new settlements nearby, including a new capital founded by the Arabs who took possession in the 7th century.

The Romans mined marble in the nearby quarry.

The Blue Hole is an abandoned rock quarry that was used for nearby road fills and Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad.

The WPA helped to build the gymnasium and tennis courts at the school on Main Street and the CCC built the Hogansville Amphitheater using stone from a nearby rock quarry.

Construction, using limestone from a nearby quarry, was completed in 1813.

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

In 1925, the National Gypsum Company opened a quarry nearby, and the name of the post office was changed to National City in 1926.

A copper mine and a sandstone quarry were nearby.

The nearby nuclear power station at Oldbury-on-Severn, Tytherington quarry and Stokefield Close were used as locations for the 1976 four-part Doctor Who serial The Hand of Fear.

The quarry is situated off the A701 on the north of Dumfries at Locharbriggs close to the nearby aggregates quarry.

Grannas Brothers operate a large stone quarry just outside of Williamsburg, in nearby Ganister.

A prehistoric obsidian quarry site has been identified in the nearby Mineral Mountains.

Founded by A. T. Dishman, who operated a nearby rock quarry, its population was 10, 031 at the 2000 census.

Major construction took place during the Victorian era, when houses were constructed to serve the nearby quarry.

In the early 1900s, around the time the first people settled in nearby Las Vegas, a small sandstone quarry was operated by the Excelsior Company near the northern area of the scenic loop.

Pericles initiated its reconstruction with white marble brought from the nearby quarry of Pentelicon.

A group of prisoners were executed in a nearby quarry and others at Sheikh Bader.

There is also a lime works nearby ; limestone is provided by Singleton Birch from the nearby quarry in Melton Ross.

The bus crashes into a dirt embankment and Scorpio flees into a nearby rock quarry, where he has a running gun battle with Callahan.

For centuries, the island was used to quarry limestone, which was used in nearby Copenhagen and elsewhere ; in 1289, the town lord of Copenhagen is recorded to have granted quarrying rights on Saltholm and quarrying continued until as late as 1935.

The nearby Carnglaze Caverns, a former slate quarry, forms an unusual music venue.

Animals may be present at the site or provide hunting in nearby areas.

But Judge Marvin Jones, senior member of the Court, is an elderly gentleman who lives at the nearby Metropolitan Club and desires to walk to work.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

Johnston now planned to defeat the Union forces piecemeal before the various Union units in Kentucky and Tennessee under Grant with 40, 000 men at nearby Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and the now Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell on his way from Nashville with 35, 000 men, could unite against him.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

" Starting at age 15, he took a job working for clockmaker Seth Thomas in the nearby town of Plymouth.

She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.

The " false head " effect is further reinforced by the bugs ' habit of walking backwards when it detects movement nearby, so as to misdirect predators to strike at its rear, rather than at its actual head.

Pilots can navigate much more accurately and view terrain, obstructions, and other nearby aircraft on a map or through synthetic vision, even at night or in low visibility.

The official unveiling of the uniforms came at a charity event on November 8 in nearby Scottsdale, where several of the players modeled the uniforms on a runway, and posed for publicity photos.

The St. Olaf College Choir was established as an outgrowth of the local St. John's Lutheran Church, where Christiansen was organist and the choir was composed at least partially of students from the nearby St. Olaf campus.

Parallax is caused by a change in the position of the observer looking at a relatively nearby object, as measured against more distant objects, and is therefore dependent upon the distance between the observer and the object.

Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle.

Gabriele Capone worked at a nearby barber shop at 29 Park Avenue.

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

However, Wilkes ’ Hessian brigade, lying nearby in the marshy grass at the water's edge, stood firm and repulsed the Gens d ' Armes with steady fire, enabling the English and Hessians to re-order and launch another attack.

The plane clipped the fence at the end of the runway on its next take-off attempt and a wing tore through a nearby house, setting it alight.

Bethlehem stands at an elevation of about above sea level, higher than nearby Jerusalem.

In a speech delivered at the nearby Masonic temple, Bush compared the RODS system to a modern " DEW " line ( referring to the Cold War ballistic missile early warning system ).

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

Ensuring there are at least some breeding pests nearby that are not resistant increases the chance the resistant pests will choose to mate with nonresistant ones.

Although initially disappointed that the main French fleet was not at Alexandria, Nelson knew from the presence of the transports that they must be nearby.

Together with nearby Anglet, Biarritz, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and several smaller communes, Bayonne forms an urban area with 178, 965 inhabitants at the 1999 census, 40, 078 of whom lived in the city of Bayonne proper ( 44, 300 as of 2004 estimates ).