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Which year in today's review has the least amount of wood?

Good morning!I think it's 2007 because it appears to be all rock.

2007

Good Morning from Marquette.

Good morning from Minnesota! What another gorgeous day out here!

Did anybody watch the ACM's last night? WOW! What great entertainment!

Question...all my life I've seen those beautiful buildings UP north of the impressive red stone like the shown fire station/museum. What can you pasty experts tell me about this stone? It just says UP as soon as I see something built of it.

That red stone is known as the Jacobsville Sandstone. It was quarried locally at Jacobsville and sent throughout the United States and I think even to the UK for use as building stone. The quarry was opened in 1883 and operated for about 30 years. You can take a drive to Jacobsville and see remnants of the quarrying, although much of it is overgrown with trees now.

The Jacobsville Sandstone is ~1.1 billion years old. It was deposited in a basin adjacent to the Midcontinent Rift.

I have to get back to class now. I can tell you more about the rock later!

One of the most well known buildings to use Jacobsville Sandstone was the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, or perhaps the original Waldorf (built in 1893) in New York City.

DR Nat, FR Nash My grandfather John Wetton was the super at the Jackobsville Quarry and Grandmother was the Postmister's (sp) there too. I ll have to check for some old photo,s I might have.

Wonderful photos.

RCW How long ago was that?

Rowdy, Well I would estimate in the 1880s,maybe farther back even.He passed away when I was only around 5 years old.