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    Survey Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quincy Quarries Reservation. Quincy Quarries Department of Conservation and Recreation Quincy Quarry Museum...
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    Church in Quincy Center. Thomas Crane Public Library Quincy Quarries Reservation in West Quincy. View of Marina Bay and Boston across Quincy Bay from Wollaston...
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    as the Quincy Quarries Reservation. In 1825, after an exhaustive search throughout New England, Solomon Willard selected the Quincy site as the source...
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  • This is a list of notable quarries and areas of quarrying in the United States. A number of these are historic quarries listed on the National Register...
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    North Carolina Moro Rock, Sequoia National Park, California Quincy Quarries Reservation, Quincy, Massachusetts Scotts Bluff National Monument, Gering, Nebraska...
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    parts of Milton, Quincy, Braintree, Canton, Randolph, and Dedham. Located approximately ten miles south of downtown Boston, the reservation is one of the...
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    The Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry is a prehistoric archaeological site in Milton and Quincy, Massachusetts. It consists of a series of...
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    Quincy Shore Reservation is a public recreation area and protected shoreline on Quincy Bay, Boston Harbor, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Its primary attraction...
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  • April 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2015. "Section 7. Bristol Blake State Reservation". Mass.gov. Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved July...
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    Blue Hills' eastern slopes face the ocean and lie within Quincy. The area once attracted quarrying for its "blue granite". Great Blue Hill was a point of...
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    Furnace Brook Parkway (category Quincy, Massachusetts)
    Quincy, Massachusetts. Part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, it serves as a connector between the Blue Hills Reservation and Quincy...
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    The Trustees of Reservations (also referred to as Trustees or The Trustees after a 2021 rebranding) is a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation...
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  • which can be viewed by clicking the number. Location derived from this Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum webpage; the NRIS lists the site as "Address...
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    on multiple area lists: Blue Hills Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston (Milton, Quincy, and other Norfolk County) Brookwood...
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    Massachusetts. Once the Babson Farm granite quarry, the properties are cooperatively managed by the Trustees of Reservations and the Massachusetts Department of...
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    South Quincy and on the west by the town of Milton and the Blue Hills Reservation. Adams Street, Copeland Street, Furnace Brook Parkway, Quarry Street...
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    000–12,000 years ago. The pond is protected as part of Walden Pond State Reservation, a 335-acre (136 ha) state park and recreation site managed by the Massachusetts...
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    an 8-acre (3 ha) wilderness reservation purchased for the public in 1935 by The Trustees of Reservations. The Reservation is currently being managed with...
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    northeast for about 29 miles (47 km) to its mouth at Dorchester Bay between Quincy and the Dorchester section of Boston, near the painted gas tank. The Neponset...
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    Squantum Point Park (category Quincy, Massachusetts)
    River Reservation". MassParks. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Retrieved September 7, 2013. "Neponset River Reservation: Quincy Riverwalk"...
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    columns on Ricciuti Drive in Quincy, Massachusetts. The first quarry on the site, one of the earliest quarries in Quincy, was established on the site...
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    traverse the area, which is part of the larger Mount Greylock State Reservation. The peak played a role in 19th century American literature, and is featured...
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    Quincy, MA. June 17, 2000. Retrieved July 6, 2023. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pope John Paul II Park. Pope John Paul II Park Reservation Department...
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    Trustees of Reservations. The property is the only means of public access to another Trustees property, the otherwise inaccessible Pierce Reservation. In 1734...
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    training program in the following year. Formerly the Massachusetts Military Reservation, it was renamed in 2013 to Joint Base Cape Cod by Massachusetts; although...
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  • Thumbnail for Purgatory Chasm State Reservation
    Purgatory Chasm State Reservation is a protected state park in Sutton, Massachusetts. Located within Blackstone Valley, the reservation is managed by the...
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    reservations at King's Beach in Lynn, Nantasket Beach in Hull, Quincy Shore, Revere Beach, and reservations along the Charles, Mystic and Neponset Rivers. Architect...
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    its annual sand sculpture competition. The Revere Beach Reservation and Revere Beach Reservation Historic District is listed on the National Register of...
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  • Thumbnail for Middlesex Fells Reservation
    Middlesex Fells Reservation, often referred to simply as the Fells, is a public recreation area covering more than 2,200 acres (890 ha) in Malden, Medford...
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    Adams National Historical Park (category National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts)
    National Historic Site, in Quincy, Massachusetts, preserves the home of United States presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, of U.S. envoy to Great...
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