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    Seneca Quarry is a historic site located at Seneca, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on the north bank of...
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    Lake Day Use Area. The remains of Seneca Quarry, built in 1837, is off Tschiffely Mill Road just west of where Seneca Creek empties into the Potomac. The...
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    architect and building committee finally settled on Seneca red sandstone from the Seneca Quarry in Montgomery County, Maryland. The redstone was substantially...
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    and restroom facilities. Just west of the creek's mouth is the Seneca Quarry, the quarry that provided the red sandstone for the Smithsonian Castle and...
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    Lock Road in Seneca, Maryland. Seneca Aqueduct was built from 1829 to 1832 with three red sandstone arches quarried in the nearby Seneca Quarry, just a few...
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  • Quartzite Quarry Archeological Site, Pasadena, Maryland, NRHP-listed, Quartzite and sandstone quarries of the Woodland period Seneca Quarry, Seneca, Maryland...
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    including Seneca Aqueduct (Aqueduct No. 1), Lock No. 24 (Riley's Lock), the adjacent lock house; as well as the Seneca Quarry and quarry masters house...
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    1828 to 1830 called Montevideo. The farm also included the redstone Seneca Quarry, whose stone Peter would bid on and win the Smithsonian Institution...
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    Smithsonian's Board of Regents, and was built with red sandstone quarried at Seneca Quarry in Seneca, Maryland. The Smithsonian Institution Building proved influential...
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    lock houses were made from Seneca red sandstone, quarried from the Seneca Quarry, as was Aqueduct No. 1, better known as Seneca Aqueduct. This unique structure...
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    architect, James Dixson and Gilbert Cameron as the contractors, and the Seneca Quarry for its distinct, dark-red sandstone. Owen, his brother David Dale Owen...
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    called the community Seneca. Robert Peter died in 1806, and his eldest son Thomas inherited land near Seneca including the quarry. Construction of the...
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    1863 pp.75-76 Peck, Garrett (2013). The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 62–65. ISBN 978-1609499297....
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    228 in 2023). The lock was made from Seneca Creek Red Sandstone boated down the Potomac River from the Seneca Quarry. Construction of the lock house began...
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    plagued the Grant administration known as the Seneca Stone Ring Scandal. The owners of the Seneca Quarry, the Seneca Sandstone Company, had sold shares to senior...
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    Construction soon began on a fence composed of sandstone taken from Seneca Quarry in Maryland. Five years later, all the Arlington Estate land not encompassed...
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    educate the children of the stone cutters who worked at the Seneca Quarry. Operating as the Seneca Schoolhouse Museum, it provides tours to schoolchildren...
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    around Great Falls, and were constructed of red sandstone from the Seneca Quarry across the river in Maryland. Locking through the whole canal could...
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    is constructed of Massachusetts granite and red sandstone quarried at the nearby Seneca Quarry, and rises 101 ft (31 m) above Cabin John Creek. The main...
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    Seneca Quarry...
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    investment was in loans totalling $50,000 to the Seneca Sandstone Company, owner of the Seneca Quarry, secured by "the company's worthless bonds".: 154 ...
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    2023). The lock was made from Seneca Creek Red Sandstone boated a short distance down the Potomac River from the Seneca Quarry. Construction of the lockhouse...
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    section up to Dam #3 (Harpers Ferry) was opened, Lock 24 was the lock at the Seneca Aqueduct (i.e. Riley's Lock). Guard lock #2 is also 88 feet 5 inches long...
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    278 in 2023). The lock was made from Seneca Creek Red Sandstone boated down the Potomac River from the Seneca Quarry. Construction of the lock house began...
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    The church's exterior is covered with red sandstone from the Seneca Quarry, the same quarry that provided the stone for the Smithsonian Castle. The church...
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  • Construction immediately began on a fence composed of red sandstone taken from Seneca Quarry in Maryland. This boundary wall was built along Arlington Ridge Road...
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    March 15, 2022. Peck, Garrett (2013). The Smithsonian Castle and The Seneca Quarry. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. ISBN 9781614238577. Archived from...
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    of the C&O Canal, Seneca lost its relevance. Today, a few homes, a schoolhouse, a store, ruins of two mills, and ruins of a quarry are all that remain...
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    and South Carolina and encompassing parts of the Savannah, Tugaloo, and Seneca rivers. Lake Hartwell is one of the Southeastern United States' largest...
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    the Seneca Quarry's distinctive, dark-red Seneca Creek sandstone that was used in its construction. The following year Owen identified a quarry at Bull...
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