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Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve


Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve
Peter Marteka
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Trails wind through a hemlock forest and past large boulders.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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The trails pass by piles of huge quarry tailings with drill holes visible in the rocks.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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The Statue of Liberty famously proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and so on. Less famously, it’s builders asked quarries along the Connecticut shoreline to give them their pink granite rock 450 tons of it for Lady Liberty to stand on.
The pink granite, concentrated in a vein running through Branford and Guilford, has been making its way around the Northeast and points beyond since the first quarry was opened in Branford’s eastern side in 1858. The stone has been used at Columbia University, the foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, Bost ....

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