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List of Photographic Tours of
Stone Quarries, Etc.

California

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  • “San Buenaventura Mission & Some Stone Work Created from Locally-quarried Stone” – Photographic Tour, Ventura, Ventura County, California
    Front of San Buenaventura Mission, Ventura, Calif. Fountain in the interior of San Buenaventura Mission, Ventura, Calif. Metal-rimmed stone wheel, Ventura, Calif.

    Front of San Buenaventura Mission

    Fountain in the interior of San Buenaventura Mission

    Metal-rimmed stone wheel
    at Mission San Buenaventura

  • San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct Photographic Tour, Ventura, Ventura County, California – The San Buenaventura Mission aqueduct is located on Rancho Cañada Larga.  The stone aqueduct was constructed by the San Buenaventura Mission Indians to bring water from San Antonio Creek to Mission San Buenaventura.  (Scroll midway down the page for the photographs of the aqueduct ruins.)
    Memorial to the Rancho Cañada Larga and piece of the old stone aqueduct that supplied water to San Buenaventura Mission, Ventura, Calif. Portion of the San Buenaventura Mission Aquduct constructed by the mission Indians, Ventura, Calif. Portion of the San Buenaventura Mission Aquduct constructed by the mission Indians, Ventura, Calif.

    Memorial to the Rancho Cañada Larga and piece of the old stone aqueduct that supplied water to San Buenaventura Mission

    Portion of the San Buenaventura Mission Aquduct constructed by the mission Indians

    Close-up photo of a portion of the San Buenaventura Mission Aquduct

  • Santa Cruz Island Photographic Tour (part of the Channel Islands National Park) Santa Barbara County, California – “Photo Tour from Ventura to Scorpion Ranch, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park, Santa Barbara County, California - Including Some Uses of Local Stone.”
    Landing at Santa Cruz Island, Calif. Dry stone wall & road located on one of the Santa Cruz Island hillsides, Calif. Wooden shed located on the Scorpion Ranch on Santa Cruz Island, Calif.

    Landing at Santa Cruz Island

    Dry stone wall & road located on one of the Santa Cruz Island hillsides

    Wooden shed located on the Scorpion Ranch on Santa Cruz Island

  • Soledad (near), Monterey County, California – Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, also known as Soledad Mission – Uses of Local Stone (the mission, cemetery, and deteriorating adobe walls and stone foundations)
    Front of Soledad Mission, Monterey County, CA Display of native American Indian stone implements, Mission Soledad, Monterey County, CA Deteriorating adobe walls & remnants of the stone foundations of the Indian workshops at Mission Soledad, Monterey County, CA

    Front of Soledad Mission

    Display of native American Indian stone implements

    Deteriorating adobe walls & remnants of the stone foundations of the Indian workshops at
    Mission Soledad

  • Standard Portland Cement Co. / Basalt Rock Co. Ruins Photographic Tour, Napa Junction / American Canyon, Napa County, California
    Silos built by the Standard Portland Cement Co. located at American Canyon, Calif. Photograph of one of the former quarries used by the Standard Portland Cement Co. in making cement, Calif. Looking through a door and window at the Standard Portland Cement Co. ruins near American Canyon, Calif.

    Silos built by the Standard Portland Cement Co. located at American Canyon

    Photograph of one of the former quarries used by the Standard Portland Cement Co. in making cement

    Looking through a door and window at the Standard Portland Cement Co. ruins near American Canyon

  • Sweetwater Dam & Quarry, San Diego County, California  (The following photographs and the photographs in the “Sweetwater Dam & Quarry Photographic Tour” section of our web site were taken in late May 2012. Peggy B. Perazzo)  
    Sweetwater Dam & granite quarry, San Diego Co., CA (5/2012) Sweetwater Dam & granite quarry, San Diego Co., CA (5/2012) Sweetwater Dam & granite quarry, San Diego Co., CA (5/2012)

     

    Sweetwater Dam & Granite Quarry, San Diego County, California

     

  • Tolenas Springs Onyx/“Marble”/Travertine Quarry & Mineral Springs, near Fairfield, Solano County, California (The photographs below and in the “Tolenas Springs Quarry and Mineral Springs” photo tour section of our web site were taken and contributed by Richard Degraffenreid.)
    Tolenas Springs onyx/“marble”/travertine quarry & mineral springs area, near Fairfield, Solano County, CA Close-up of rock at the Tolenas Springs onyx/“marble”/travertine quarry & mineral springs area, near Fairfield, Solano County, CA Close-up of rock at the Tolenas Springs onyx/“marble”/travertine quarry & mineral springs area, near Fairfield, Solano County, CA

    Tolenas Springs onyx/“marble”/travertine quarry & mineral springs area

    Close-up of a rock at the Tolenas Springs onyx/“marble”/travertine quarry area

    Another rock at the Tolenas Springs quarry area

  • Ventura, Ventura County, California - Art City Studios Photographic Tour – Photographic tour of grounds and studios of professional sculptors who make beautiful desktop pieces to monumental sculptures and fountains in addition to pieces of raw, unworked stone
    One of the carvings located at the entrance of Art City Studios, Ventura, Calif. Limestone Cairn created by Paul Lindhard located at Art City Studios, Ventura, Calif. Stone mosaic patio by Kevin Carman located at Art City Studios, Ventura, Calif.

    One of the carvings located at the entrance of Art City Studios

    Limestone Cairn created by Paul Lindhard located at Art City Studios

    Stone mosaic patio by Kevin Carman located at Art City Studios

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