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Indiana's limestone is a rock of ages
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Indiana's limestone is a rock of ages
Great buildings have their start in state's vast quarries
By BETH ROSENBERG Associated Press
Sunday, November 10, 2002
Oolitic, Ind. -- Most people have never heard of the tiny Indiana
towns of Oolitic, Ellettsville and Stinesville.
But anyone who has visited the Empire State Building, the Pentagon
or the U.S. Capitol has seen the stately gray limestone that
generations of Indiana stoneworkers have painstakingly pulled fr...
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