NEWPORT – One path circles a meadow at the base of a high ridge and a vertical, rock-faced wall cut by granite quarriers in the 1800s. The 3-acre meadow is covered with hundreds of green shoots ...

Sea kayakers favor this refreshing swimming hole scooped out of pink-granite ledges by quarriers in the late 1800s on Stonington’s 47-acre Green Island, now a Maine Coast Heritage Trust preserve. From ...

Its ultradurable stone has gone into the building of the Empire State Building and the Pentagon. Not so durable is Indiana Limestone Co. itself, however, which last week filed for bankruptcy and ...

At first glance, stone quarrying appears to be a messy business. Great mounds of earth are excavated and massive blocks of limestone, marble, sandstone, and nearly every other type of stone under the ...