Milford pink granite Milford pink granite Milford pink granite, also known as Milford granite or Milford pink is a Proterozoic igneous rock located in and around the town of Milford, Massachusetts, covering an area of approximately 100 km, as mapped by the USGS. From 1870 to 1940, the town of Milford became famous for the "pink" variety of this stone, prized as a building material. According to local legend, the granite was "discovered" in the early 1870s by two brothers, James and William Sherman at Rocky Woods in Milford. At its peak, over 1,000 men labored in dozens of quarries in Milford and
Granite spiny lizard Granite spiny lizard The granite spiny lizard (Sceloporus orcutti) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard. The epithet, "orcutti", honors American naturalist Charles Russell Orcutt (1864–1929), who collected the type specimen in San Diego County, California. It is endemic to southern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. The granite spiny lizard is snout-to-vent length. Maximum total length including the tail is . Its dorsal scales are strongly keeled and pointed on its body and tail. It has a wide purple mid-dorsal stripe. The males of the species have yellow-green and blue-centered scales on the body; juveniles and