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Lime: Quarrying and Limemaking in the San Juan Islands
Paperback
Architecture HistoryRegional: Pacific Northwest
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781734235135
Publisher: Friedrich Petzel Gallery
Published: Oct 1 2022
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Formed through eons of geologic time and sculpted by glaciers, the limestone deposits along the islands' shores provided the essential ingredient for the block and mortar that built and rebuilt the West Coast's major cities. Read all about the islands' economic booms and busts, dramatic changes to the landscape, bloody murder, contentious lawsuits, and deadly shipwrecks.
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