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Scenic treasure Route 146 gets new flood prevention plan in Guilford, Branford

Scenic treasure Route 146 gets new flood prevention plan in Guilford, Branford Josh LaBella FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 A rendering of a bridge once proposed for Route 146 that was scrapped after community feedback felt it was not fitting for the scenic road.Contributed renderingShow MoreShow Less 2of5 A bicyclist tours Route 146 between Stony Creek in Branford and Guilford.Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of5 An overhead view of a Guilford structure that serves as a bridge on Leetes Island Road (Route 146).Connecticut Department of Transportation / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 4of5 FILE PHOTO: The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and a near high tide leaves a flood underneath the railroad bridge on Route 146 near Pine Orchard Road and before Tabor Drive in Branford on Oct. 30, 2012.File photoShow MoreShow Less

Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve

Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve Peter Marteka FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 Trails wind through a hemlock forest and past large boulders.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 The trails pass by piles of huge quarry tailings with drill holes visible in the rocks.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 5of5 The Statue of Liberty famously proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and so on. Less famously, it’s builders asked quarries along the Connecticut shoreline to give them their pink granite rock 450 tons of it for Lady Liberty to stand on. The pink granite, concentrated in a vein running through Branford and Guilford, has been making its way around the Northeast and points beyond since the first quarry was opened in Branford’s eastern side in 1858. The stone has been used at Columbia University, the foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, Boston’s South Terminal Station, Ph

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