Now it’s part of history lore, but once there actually was a colossal black rock (Onondaga limestone) in Black Rock. It was located on the river at the bend of Niagara Street at Massachusetts ...

As much as we know about Plymouth Rock, there's one piece of stone that ... In the heart of historic Jamestown, Virginia, a mysterious black limestone tombstone has been turning everything ...

USA," argues that the black limestone actually came from Europe – and sheds light on the trade routes of the time. "In seventeenth-century Virginia, USA, one of the ways affluent English ...

Those pre-historic peoples who traveled the Great Basin may have seen the Black Rock itself crash down from the nearby Oquirrh Mountains, leaving that massive lump of limestone near the water's edge.