After visiting Redstone quarry and looking at the pieces, processes, patterns, the area that the quarry is in, and the species that inhabit the area I was able to develop knowledge on what the quarry was like in the past. The name of my phenology place, Redstone quarry itself gives away the human history. Redstone quarry was a quarry that was used in the past to mine Redstone or under the scientific name Monkton quartzite. The area had a functional mine in the 1800s until the University of Vermont bought it in 1958. The location of the quarry shows how important and lucrative mining was in the 1800s because the quarry is in the middle of the city. Some of the buildings on Redstone campus were built out of rock mined from the quarry. The rock mined was primarily used as a building material or crushed gravel.
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