Carrara
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Carrara. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
kar-ra'ra, a town of Italy situated on a small stream of the Apennines midway from Leghorn to Genoa. It is about ten miles from the sea. It is noted chiefly for its quarries, now over 2,000 years old. Carrara marble is a pure white, fine, sugar-grained stone long celebrated in art. It is the choicest marble known. The famous sculptors of Florence, and indeed of all Europe, were wont to work at Carrara to save the expense of transporting stone. The city now maintains a school of sculpture and is a place of some culture. In addition to the pure white carrara of the sculptors, the district has unlimited cliffs of marble for building purposes. The Pantheon of Rome and many other famous buildings are of Carrara stone. Blocks of stone were formerly transported to the Mediterranean over mountain roads by means of ox teams; but in 1890 a spur railway tunneled and bridged its way up to a height of 1,500 feet above the sea level at a cost of $4,000,000, and has supplanted largely primitive methods of transportation. There are over 600 quarries giving employment to 20,000 workmen, and supporting a population of 50,000 people. See Marble ; Greece ; Temple
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a town of Italy, in the province of Massae Carrara, on the Lavensa, about four miles from the Mediterranean, and 60 W. N. W. of Florence. An academy of sculpture is established here and several artists have their residence, attracted by the convenience of obtaining marble almost cost-free; and the sale of rude marble and of sculptured articles forms an important branch of traffic. The famous Carrara marble is a white saccharine limestone, which derives its value from its texture and purity. The quarries have been wrought from the age of Augustus, and seem to be now as inexhaustible as ever. Pop. about 50,000.