LARAMIE — For decades, a small hillside north of Laramie quite literally made the University of Wyoming. But now, the university’s board of trustees has voted to sell the hill, the site of an old ...

Yesterday, St. Josaphat Basilica, 601 W. Lincoln Ave., got some new sandstone to replace exterior stone that had deteriorated. Though the basilica is 115 years old, the materials used to build it – ...

WILKESON, Pierce County — Paul Keeslar likes to believe the 50-million-year-old sandstone block had been waiting for him. More than a year ago, he saw it in the yard of the Wilkeson Sandstone Quarry ...

Entertainment these days in front of the Scoglio di Peppino: a storm has brought the sandstone blocks of an ancient quarry to light even more than in the past. Quarry that has been recorded for some ...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - History repeats itself in a sandstone quarry not far from downtown Rawlins. As part of the $299 million Capitol Square renovation project, which includes overhauling the Capitol ...

Rural, winding Berryville Road can be as difficult to pinpoint as it is to navigate. Just ask lifelong Berryville Road resident Shirley Shields. "We lived in Seneca. The telephone number was ...

Construction of the Erie and Chenango canals strengthened transportation across the state, but it also brought an unintended, but favorable, consequence to Utica’s expansion. New York’s canal system ...

Stone quarrying is more than a century old along the foothills with quarry operations extending from Boulder to north of Fort Collins. At its height during the 1890s and through the beginning of the ...

RAWLINS - Throughout the quarry are signs of the past – the hand-chiseled rock face, a rough shelter made of stacked blocks and “1925,” the year that someone, likely a worker, marked by carving into ...