The building and decorative stones of Maryland, containing an account of their properties and distribution (1898)
Merrill, George P. (George Perkins), 1854-1929, Mathews, Edward Bennett, b. 1869 · Baltimore, Johns Hopkins press · leaf 136
of the Patapsco twenty-five milesfrom Baltimore. It is a small coimtry hamlet, but serves as the ship-ping point for the granites, which are quarried about one and one-halfmiles to the northeast. Within the area of the quarries is the smalltown of Granite, which was formerly known as Waltersville.… … GRA.NITK \V.M,1 ERSVII.LK. IIAI.I IMORli tOlNTV. MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 151 attention and were worked by several enterprising men from NewHampshire, who commenced their operations here about the years1832-33. Among them were the names Sweatt, Riddle, Putney,Holbrook, followed by many others,…
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