{"id":994,"date":"2019-02-19T23:31:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=994"},"modified":"2019-02-19T23:31:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:31:59","slug":"rock-of-ages-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/19\/rock-of-ages-quarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Of Ages Quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World&#8217;s largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry,\u00a0nearly 600 feet deep.\u00a0Minerals from the quarrying operation mix with the clear water and turn it the stunning blue of a glacial lake. The stone found here is\u00a0 known as Barre granite. The characteristics of this stone make it good for engraving.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1020 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9369.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9369-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9369-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9369-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9369-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 85vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Geologists from MIT measured the deposit of granite in this location and discovered that it\u2019s four miles long, about two miles wide, and ten miles thick. At current recovery rates, Todd Paton, director of visitor services for\u00a0Rock of Ages Corporation, says there\u2019s another 4,500 years of stone in the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1021 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9362-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9362-1.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9362-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9362-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9362-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_9362-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 85vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1022\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rock-of-Ages_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rock-of-Ages_1.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rock-of-Ages_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rock-of-Ages_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rock-of-Ages_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Rock-of-Ages_1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 85vw, 386px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1023\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-10-07-at-8.45.09-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-10-07-at-8.45.09-PM.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-10-07-at-8.45.09-PM-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-10-07-at-8.45.09-PM-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World&#8217;s largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry,\u00a0nearly 600 feet deep.\u00a0Minerals from the quarrying operation mix with the clear water and turn it the stunning blue of a glacial lake. The stone found here is\u00a0 known as Barre granite. The characteristics of this stone make it good for engraving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}