Mount Airy Granite Quarry Hours
The company has been in continuous operation since that time and has evolved into one of the most dependable best known quarrier and fabricator of stone products in the us.
Mount airy granite quarry hours. Mount airy is a town built on granite and even its soil is mixed with residue of the stone. Huge granite quarry wish there was tours. The land was originally home to the iroquois indians until the first explorers came in 1524. Visit our observation deck where you can see nearly all the activities and are close enough to be plenty startled when we set off an explosion which occurs several times each day.
Taylor greenway segment veterans park to worth street confluence greenway segment worth street to tharrington park. It s a huge quarry but unlike other rock quarries that seem to go deep into the ground this one is almost completely flat. Close into town we saw the entrance to the quarry by this time it was after 5 and the site was closed. There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open face quarries.
Quarries around the area existed as far back as the mid 18 th century but were worked only sporadically. If you re going to mt airy it s worth the extra miles to go see the granite quarry called flat rock. The first sale of the land that now comprises the quarry was to thomas smith from the state in 1780. In 1889 the north carolina granite corporation was formed on the site of the world s largest open faced granite quarry now known as white mount airy granite.
The granite city greenway system comprises of 6 6 miles of greenway and is broken into 3 segments.