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QUARRY. A place whence stones are dug for the purpose of being employed in building, making roads, and the like.
     2. When a farm is let with an open quarry, the tenant may, when not restrained by his contract, take out the stone, but he has no right to open new quarries. Vide Mines. Waste.

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According to Duffe Elkins, director of sales for the Indiana Limestone Company of Oolitic, Indiana, the limestone for 15 Central Park West is coming from the Empire Quarry from a deposit just a few hundred yards away from where the same Indiana Limestone was quarried for use on the Empire State Building, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary.
Famous limestone to grace 15 Central Park West
There's some doubt whether quarrying continued after this, but the Premier Stone Company nearby surely used stone quarried in the Moorwood area as aggregate for their concrete lintels, paving slabs, kerbstones.
MEMORIES; Centuries of working life carved from stone
Granite would be quarried from several sites in Northern Ontario.
Granite attracts government's attention; potential shown for value-added products, skilled jobs

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