Tucked away in an abandoned brownstone quarry, Dean Soucy maneuvers his backhoe pushing around huge blocks of stone. The 61-year-old Soucy has been moving earth since he was 17, but it took him ...
High on a sandstone cliff above Interstate 70 and the Eagle River sits a massive steel wheel, some timbers and a few bits of other metal. They are remnants from a 19th century sandstone quarry that ...
Yesterday, St. Josaphat Basilica, 601 W. Lincoln Ave., got some new sandstone to replace exterior stone that had deteriorated. Though the basilica is 115 years old, the materials used to build it – ...
WILKESON, Pierce County — Paul Keeslar likes to believe the 50-million-year-old sandstone block had been waiting for him. More than a year ago, he saw it in the yard of the Wilkeson Sandstone Quarry ...
The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat were brought to the site via a network of hundreds of canals, according to new research. The findings shed light on ...
RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - History repeats itself in a sandstone quarry not far from downtown Rawlins. As part of the $299 million Capitol Square renovation project, which includes overhauling the Capitol ...
Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Five 9,000-pound blocks of sandstone will be hoisted into the ...
Stone quarrying is more than a century old along the foothills with quarry operations extending from Boulder to north of Fort Collins. At its height during the 1890s and through the beginning of the ...