Ken Miller has been searching for and photographing the extant lime kilns of Lancaster County for decades. He always said he was going to write a book about them. He finally has done that. The result ...

WALKERSVILLE, Md. (AP) -- When Alice Nemitsas first thought about establishing a park at what is now Fountain Rock Park and Nature Center, the lime kilns were hidden under tangled vines. "I didn't ...

SANTA CRUZ — During the second half of the 19th century up until the early 1900s, lime production from limestone was one of Santa Cruz”s most important industries and was critical to the early ...

UTICA, Ind. (AP) - The stone structures with arched chamber openings near the Ohio River in southern Indiana may have been all but forgotten - deteriorating over the centuries and covered with weeds.

A piece of Michigan history is being dedicated as a historical marker site Friday evening in the small town of Bellevue in Eaton County. The Dyer Limestone Kiln operated in the late 1800s burning ...

Two late-19th century kilns that used to convert limestone into quicklime near Ruedi Reservoir continue to deteriorate, according to Pitkin County officials. Commissioners have a chance to save them.

A historic limestone kiln along the Susquehanna Trail in Manchester Township is in the limelight after a passing motorist noticed accelerated deterioration of a wall that is a few feet from the ...

Autumn marks the end of Pennsylvania's growing season, but it does not mean that a farmer's work is done. For more than two centuries, one of the most important autumn chores for Monroe County farmers ...

SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — Squatting atop a knoll and tucked within a thicket of trees and brush are a modest pair of industrial relics that managed an unusual feat: quietly surviving a developer’s ...

Smoke first billowed from the stone bulwark of Grey Cloud Lime Kiln at least a dozen years before there was a state called Minnesota, when the wail of steamboat whistles echoed off the nearby ...

An ancient lime kiln likely built by the Romans was discovered at a home construction site in France, researchers said. National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research In the south of France ...