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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"

 
Wallace Sandstone.
1 of 179 		Pangea
2 of 179 		Map of earth 300 million BC
3 of 179 		Part of an A.F. Church map showing Wallace in relation to Nova Scotia.
4 of 179 		1870 A.F. Church map of Wallace area showing village quarry sites
5 of 179 		Wallace River, site of first quarries in 1811.
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Historic Swing Railway Bridge over the Wallace River
7 of 179 		Railway Bridge over the Wallace River
8 of 179 		Layers sandstone deposit
9 of 179 		Sandstone bowls
10 of 179 		Stone from blast exposing where a bowl had formed.
11 of 179 		Two small sandstone bowls
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A small herd of bowls
13 of 179 		Coffee mug sold by the Wallace and Area Museum
14 of 179 		Petrified tree trunk from the plant Coridites.
15 of 179 		Growth rings visible in the petrified tree trunk found in the quarry.
16 of 179 		Point Chisels
17 of 179 		Demonstration of stone cutting using a point chisel to level the surface.
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