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Originally Posted by Mother Of Seven
I would suggest that you could sell tickets as a fundraiser for Pastor Ezekiels extension to his home. Say $500 a ticket? But people must bring their own sack of rocks, as $500 is a little on the cheap side.
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God has blessed Iowa with a great many natural stone resources that remain largely untapped because of secular laws against stoning. I recommend dolomite as opposed to limestone.
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Geologic Sources of Historic Stone Architecture in Iowa
by Brian J. Witzke
Iowa is richly endowed with a variety of rock resources suitable for building construction, and their utility is particularly well displayed in the early architectural heritage of our state. Although building stone is still actively quarried at a few places in Iowa, notably the quarries at Stone City, quarrying of building stone was more widespread during the 1800s and early 1900s, before the advent of cement block and poured concrete construction. Wherever rock resources were conveniently located near growing communities and farms, quarry workers labored to extract blocks of rock for building purposes, especially for foundation construction.
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A diversity of rock types have been used in Iowa for stone construction. Limestone and dolomite have been extensively quarried for building stone.
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http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/browse/buildngs/buildngs.htm
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