The 500-year-old quarries and their workshops produced square stone blocks known as ashlars, archaeologists said. These types of stones were used in many of the Inca empire’s construction projects.

Joe remembered the old stone quarry near Naples which he had helped his father work as a boy. His brother Eugene and sister Carmela still ran it with primitive methods and materials. Joe got his ...

The measure, first unveiled in September 1992, sets new rules for the 104-year-old basalt pit owned by Braen Stone Industries. The quarry is on the east side of the township, where it straddles ...

A 1948 deed indicated that the “stone crusher, electric motor ... several slides of the Portsmouth Fire Department using the old quarry in November 1954 as a testing site for its new fire ...

The planned expansion of a stone quarry next to William B. Umstead State Park may depend on a single word in a 43-year-old mining permit. The word determines whether the mine’s owner ...