Aquia Creek sandstone is a brown to light-gray freestone used extensively in building construction in Washington, D.C. in the late 18th and early 19th...

Nearby historic locations include Aquia Church and the remains of Aquia quarry. Cliffs of the local Aquia Creek sandstone had been visible from the Potomac...

Aquia may refer to: Aquia (video game) Aquia, Virginia Aquia District, Peru Aquia Creek Battle of Aquia Creek Aquia Creek sandstone Aquia Formation, a...

using sandstone quarried from Aquia Creek from 1792 to 1799. The Public Quarry at Government Island in the creek served as the source for Aquia Creek sandstone...

legislature. Constructed between 1792 and 1800, its exterior walls are Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801...

Island in Stafford County, Virginia is the principal source of Aquia Creek sandstone, a building stone used in many of the early government buildings...

exterior is Pennsylvania sandstone, trimmed with Indiana limestone, and the interior is made of limestone and Aquia Creek sandstone. The design evokes characteristics...

The Aquia Formation is a geologic sandstone formation that extends from the upper Chesapeake Bay to the James River near Hopewell, Virginia. It consists...

Island, Stafford, Virginia, NRHP-listed, "the principal source of Aquia Creek sandstone, a building stone used in many of the early government buildings...

octagonal in form; its walls are constructed with brick faced with Aquia Creek sandstone and a stucco finish. This site was developed for the first Academy...

by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and carved by Giuseppe Franzoni from Aquia Creek sandstone Carlo Franzoni's 1819 sculptural chariot clock, the Car of History...

feature for its time. The house is well built of brick trimmed with Aquia Creek sandstone. The lot is triangular and fenced in by a high brick wall. The kitchen...

further southeast along Aquia Creek off the lower Potomac River's southern bank in Virginia to supply well-regarded "Aquia Creek sandstone" for the foundation...

quarries at Wigginton Island and southeast along Aquia Creek to supply well-regarded Aquia Creek sandstone for the foundation of the Congress House. However...

Yorkshire Locharbriggs Sandstone Craigleith Sandstone Pennant stone: from South Wales and Bristol area Aquia Creek Sandstone: in Virginia Bayfield group:...

Stafford ironworks furnished arms for the colonial rebel soldiers. Aquia Creek sandstone, quarried from Government Island, was used to build the White House...

from the 14th century, to a person capable of carving freestone. Aquia Creek sandstone Hummelstown brownstone  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...

diameter at its base, and 16 feet at its top. It was built with Aquia Creek sandstone from the same source as the White House. The new lighthouse, 157...

quoins at the corners of the building. The doors are trimmed with Aquia Creek sandstone, using designs common to English architectural books of the period...

which frame the front doors and 2nd-story windows, Tayloe purchased Aquia Creek sandstone. This was similar to the stone later used for construction of the...

on both sides of each boundary and placing other stones, made of Aquia Creek sandstone, at one-mile intervals.. Ross Emery (June 1, 2015). "Stones laid...

rear and a small Tuscan order porch on the front. The material is Aquia Creek sandstone of a rather poor grade. The east gatehouse bears two high water...

VAULT" displayed through vent holes. The vault is constructed of Aquia Creek sandstone, which was also used to construct many important early structures...

between April 1932 and October 1933, the markers are composed of Aquia Creek sandstone and bear the Seal of Maryland on one side and the Cartouche of the...

limestone, but the aisles and the central area of the choir are Aquia Creek sandstone. Sound-absorbing tile is mounted on parts of the wall and vault...

known as the Ellipse Meadow. The columns were quarried from sandstone near Aquia Creek in Virginia and transported to Washington on a barge. Old identification...

Burroughs' family leased and operated a sandstone quarry in the Aquia Creek area of Stafford County. Known as Aquia sandstone, material from quarries in this...

Powell's Creek, Mattawoman Creek, Chicamuxen Creek, Quantico Creek, Little Creek, Chopawamsic Creek, Tank Creek, Aquia Creek, Potomac Creek, Nanjemoy Creek, Chotank...

restricted to the many creeks feeding the Chesapeake Bay. The Nanjemoy Formation (Eocene), the Marlboro Clay (Paleocene), and the Aquia Formation (Paleocene)...

Period Notes Allegheny Formation Carboniferous Antietam Formation Cambrian Aquia Formation Paleogene Brightseat Formation Paleogene Calvert Formation Neogene...