• Quarry is a rural unincorporated community in Marshall County, Iowa, United States. Quarry was laid out by the Le Grand Quarry Company in 1868. The mining...
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  • Columbus Junction, Iowa Old State Quarry, North Liberty, Iowa, NRHP-listed Quarry, Iowa, site of limestone quarrying in Marshall County, Iowa. Town was laid...
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  • Canada Quarry, County Westmeath, a townland in Mullingar civil parish, Ireland Quarry, Iowa, United States, an unincorporated community Quarry, Ohio,...
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    Des Moines, Iowa. The community was incorporated on April 16, 1887. Two quarries known as the Midwest Limestone Quarry and the Hallett Quarry were opened...
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  • The State Quarry, Iowa Men's Reformatory is a nationally recognized historic district located northwest of Anamosa, Iowa, United States. It was listed...
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    Iowa (/ˈaɪ.əwə/ EYE-ə-wə) is a state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri...
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    The Quarry Bridge is located near Quarry, Iowa in Marshall County, Iowa. The bridge is also called the Iowa River Bridge. It was built in 1885 and has...
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  • Jerry Quarry (May 15, 1945 – January 3, 1999), nicknamed "Irish" or "The Bellflower Bomber", was an American professional boxer. During the peak of his...
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    Dakota, Iowa, and Omaha peoples. The Quarries were considered a neutral territory in the historic past where all tribal nations could quarry stone for...
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    centuries, they lived in the Red Pipestone Quarry region (Minnesota). In the early 19th century, the Iowa had reached the banks of the Platte River, where...
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    Max Allan Collins (category Novelists from Iowa)
    First Quarry (2008) Quarry In The Middle (2009) Quarry's Ex (2010) The Wrong Quarry (2014) Quarry's Choice (2015) Quarry In The Black (2016) Quarry's Climax...
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    Orchard, Iowa. His company, the Interstate Investment & Development Company platted a town named Lithograph City nearby and opened a quarry (43°11′38...
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    Alton Bridge (1884), Denton County, Texas Quarry Bridge (1885), County Road I-4 over the Iowa River, Quarry, Iowa. NRHP-listed Second Street Bridge (1886)...
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    State Center Green Mountain Bangor Dunbar LaMoille Marietta Quarry Bangor Eden Greencastle Iowa Jefferson Le Grand Liberty Liscomb Logan Marietta Marion...
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    Anamosa is a city in Jones County, Iowa, United States. The population was 5,450 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Jones County. What is now...
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    The Iowa State Capitol, commonly called the Iowa Statehouse, is in Iowa's capital city, Des Moines. As the seat of the Iowa General Assembly, the building...
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    rural Washington County, Iowa, United States, along the English River on Iowa Highway 22. It is part of the Iowa City, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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    Iowa, United States. Stone City began as a company town for the workers of the local quarries. Stone City is known for its Anamosa Limestone quarries...
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    Greenfield is a city in and the county seat of Adair County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 2,062. The area surrounding...
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    a list of 63 state parks and recreation areas in Iowa. These state parks of the U.S. state of Iowa can be split into two groups based on management....
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    of Anamosa, Iowa – approximately 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The building was commissioned in 1872 by the 14th Iowa General Assembly...
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    Orchard is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 68 at the time of the 2020 census. Orchard got its start in the year 1869...
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    Elkader /ɛlˈkeɪdər/ is a city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,209 at the time of the 2020 census, down from 1,465 in 2000...
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    of, O'Brien County, Iowa, United States. The population was 896 at the time of the 2020 census. Primghar is 23.5 miles south of Iowa State Highway 9, 28...
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    site located northeast of North Liberty, Iowa, United States. The quarry, originally known as North Bend Quarries, began operations in 1842. It provided...
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    39°2.16′N 107°10.10′W / 39.03600°N 107.16833°W / 39.03600; -107.16833 (Quarry site) Yule Marble is a marble of metamorphosed Leadville Limestone found...
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    St. Ansgar is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 census. St. Ansgar is named for the patron saint of...
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    was renamed in 2015 from Meldon Quarry railway station. The station was originally constructed circa 1890 as Meldon Quarry Halt by the London and South Western...
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    Gipple's Quarry Bridge is a historic structure located in a rural area southwest of Columbus Junction, Iowa, United States. The Louisa County Board of...
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  • from 1899 to 1918, a distance of 19.25 miles along the Ararat River. A quarry line joined at "the Junction" near Riverside Drive. New Canaan Branch, Metro-North...
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