Smoke first billowed from the stone bulwark of Grey Cloud Lime Kiln at least a dozen years before there was a state called Minnesota, when the wail of steamboat whistles echoed off the nearby ...

SANTA CRUZ — During the second half of the 19th century up until the early 1900s, lime production from limestone was one of Santa Cruz”s most important industries and was critical to the early ...

Autumn marks the end of Pennsylvania's growing season, but it does not mean that a farmer's work is done. For more than two centuries, one of the most important autumn chores for Monroe County farmers ...

VERNON -- Traveling through the McAfee Valley in Vernon Township, massive limestone peaks may be observed towering in the distance. These limestone cliffs serve as a reminder of early days when ...

The Royer Limestone Kiln was dedicated on Saturday. "One of the original structures on the Royer Farmstead, the kiln had fallen into disrepair and was in danger of being lost due to erosion and ...

A 2021 wildfire uncovered Colfax Lime Kiln and quarry hidden for nearly a century. Placer County named the kiln and quarry official historic landmarks on Tuesday. Nonprofit aims to restore site, offer ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Thanks to the limestone bluffs and hills that surrounded Red Wing, the town ...

BERMUDA is a house of sand. Standing some 16,000 feet, or three miles, off the seabed in the area of the North Atlantic known as the Bermuda Rise, the island is nothing more than a large sand dune ...

Late 19th century and early 20th century historical monuments, representative of California’s early development, once hid under a dense Placer County forest. The monuments, a 60-foot lime kiln and ...