. . . the world's largest, in Mt. Airy, NC.
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One mile from the world's largest open-faced granite quarry, everyone shares the 'wealth', sort of.
These are natural formations. When you live this close to a huge granite quarry, that's the way the land lies, and you don't have much choice in your landscape plan! An inspired landscape artist could have thought it up, but here such wasn't necessary!
My eye was especially attracted that morning by the yellow flowers clustered in warm corners where the rocks absorbed the sun--it was very early spring--March. Note the pink of buds in the bare trees.
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Showing a worked surface and color variation. NC Granite Corporation.
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About a mile from the NC Granite Corp. quarry, the world largest open-face one. All the land close to the open face is part of the granite Rock, some with a thin overlay of soil.
old garage, showing an addition to admit storage of longer cars--all this in an earlier decade.
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of the world's largest open-face granite quarry. NC Granite Corp. has supplied the granite for many of the classic federal buildings, bridges, monuments, and memorials in Washington, DC, as well as structures worldwide.
www.ncgranite.com/largestquarry.asp
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