Talk:Portland Brownstone Quarries

A fact from Portland Brownstone Quarries appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Portland Brownstone Quarries, which once provided brownstone to many landmark buildings in the United States during the 1800s, are now a National Historic Landmark and a regional scuba diving destination?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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Portland stone/brownstone

Both Portland England and Portland New England (Connecticut) stone was used in New York City. Thus I added a disambiguation. --Zfish118^⋉talk 05:08, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Brownstone buildings

You should say something about the thousands of single family residences that were built in New York and Boston from Portland brownstone. many of these still exist and today are prized by homeowners. 10 million cubic yards of brownstone were removed from the Portland quarries for these and other projects. Arydberg (talk) 02:37, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]