Limestone is quarried from surrounding bluffs.
For many decades, brownstones were repaired with actual brownstone, often brown sandstone quarried from Portland, Conn.
But other seemingly equally memorable events and epochs have to be painfully quarried from the archives.
The stones are made from granite quarried from one location, the island of Ailsa Craig.
Gravel for roads was quarried from the high terrain by Cherry Valley Avenue.
Alas, more than spirits and temple stones was quarried from Zedekiah's Cave.
Underfoot in the Freedom Hall is Marianna limestone quarried from Tunisia ("Birthplace of the Arab Spring," Langdale said).
The homes will be wood-sided with concrete and brownstone foundations, using brownstone quarried from nearby Portland.
The prospect of a new volume this year, quarried from her notebooks, drafts and rejects, was overwhelmingly toothsome.
Purbeck marble, quarried from the hills inland of Swanage, was once used in the construction of many famous churches in England.
Hamstone, something of an aristocrat among Somerset building stones, is still quarried from Ham Hill, which we had passed on our way.
