Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Rock quarries and mosquitos here in DC......


Map of Piney Branch, Washington, DC
Piney Branch, Washington, DC

Piney Branch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wikipedia
Dubbed the "Piney Branch Quarry Site", it was first examined by archeologist William Henry Holmes in 1889 and 1890. Another investigation begin in 2006 ...
River mouth‎: ‎Rock Creek (Potomac River)
Size‎: ‎2,500 acres (10 km2)

Stone tools of the Piney Branch quarry, DC - Mountain Beltway

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Jun 5, 2013 - That's a cobble of quartzite from the Potomac Formation gravels (Cretaceous aged deposits) exposed along the northern side of Piney Branch ...

Piney Branch (DC) Quarry Workshop and Its ... - JStor

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JSTOR
by T Wilson - ‎1896
Piney Branch (D. C.) Quarry Workshop. 977 have not ventured upon the determination of these ques- tions of prehistoric ages and races. with the confidence of ...

Recommended Reading - Archipelago 5.3

www.archipelago.org/vol5-4/recommend.htm
One thousand years ago this sylvan glade in Piney Branch Park was an active stone quarry. Much of the ground was a jumble of debris mounds and open pits.

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