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'''The Gray Brothers Quarry and brick factory on Corona Heights above bucolic Eureka Valley established in the 1890s. '''
'''The Gray Brothers Quarry and brick factory on Corona Heights above bucolic Eureka Valley established in the 1890s. '''   ''Photo: Greg Gaar collection, San Francisco, CA''
 
Corona Heights Quarry, late 19th Century


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'''By 1899, they had removed tons of rock and produced tens of thousands of bricks, creating the blasted landscape at left (seen from the hill between Eureka and Noe Valleys just west of Dolores Park). The Gray Brothers also quarried [[Telegraph Hill Quarry |Telegraph Hill]] and [[30th and Castro South |Billy Goat Hill]] above Noe Valley.'''
'''By 1899, they had removed tons of rock and produced tens of thousands of bricks, creating the blasted landscape at left (seen from the hill between Eureka and Noe Valleys just west of Dolores Park). The Gray Brothers also quarried [[Telegraph Hill Quarry |Telegraph Hill]] and [[30th and Castro South |Billy Goat Hill]] above Noe Valley.'''


''Photos: Greg Gaar collection, San Francisco, CA''
''Photo: Greg Gaar collection, San Francisco, CA''





Revision as of 19:16, 16 July 2008

File:Ecology1$brick-factory-1880s.jpg

The Gray Brothers Quarry and brick factory on Corona Heights above bucolic Eureka Valley established in the 1890s. Photo: Greg Gaar collection, San Francisco, CA

Ecology1$corona-hts-quarry-1899.jpg

By 1899, they had removed tons of rock and produced tens of thousands of bricks, creating the blasted landscape at left (seen from the hill between Eureka and Noe Valleys just west of Dolores Park). The Gray Brothers also quarried Telegraph Hill and Billy Goat Hill above Noe Valley.

Photo: Greg Gaar collection, San Francisco, CA


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