North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex is a historic granite quarry and national historic district located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 8 contributing structures in an area approximately one mile long and 1/3 mile wide.
Notable contributing resources include the cutting shed (1927), the office building (1928), and a building originally used as a blacksmith shop. It is the world’s largest open-faced granite quarry. Granite from the quarry was used to build the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, and the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Over the past 25 years, the North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex has expanded its color offerings in granite to include blacks, reds, greys, greens and pink that are sourced from other quarries in the US and throughout the world. The Company has also expanded into other stone types such as limestone and marbles and is always looking for new quarries and opportunities to expand its business.
According to nbgqa.com; roadsideamerica.com; en.wikipedia.org. Source of photos: internet
