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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 14, 2006
Caption: Grout Piles
Additional Description: Since 1885, quarry workers have simply dumped pieces of granite with fractures or cracks in these piles, called "grout piles," which comes from the Scottish word for scrap (many Scots worked in the quarry in its early days).
Submitted: March 8, 2015, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p302038
File Size: 1.509 Megabytes

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