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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
Location: Wallace River, Nova Scotia, Canada

 
Wallace River, site of first quarries in 1811.
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Historic Swing Railway Bridge over the Wallace River
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Railway Bridge over the Wallace River
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Sandstone bowls
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Pete's Devils
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Brunton and Adams Quarry Mary Kennedy's History of the Company
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Brunton and Adams Quarry, 1880's letterhead
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Brunton and Adams Account Book
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Telegram for Brunton and Adams
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Brunton and Adams Account
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Boot scraper made at the Battye Quarry
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Brunton and Adams Account
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Sandstone column being polished for the Amherst, Nova Scotia Federal Building.
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Wallace River, viewing south, up stream
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Cutting shop for the A.S. Dewar Quarry
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View of the over burden on the Wallace sandstone deposit
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Advertisement for Brickyard
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Drill holes in an unused piece of stone.
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