List of Quarries in Georgia & Quarry Links,
Photographs and Articles

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(The following list of Georgia quarries is not a complete list of all of the historical quarries in the state, only the ones I have been able to locate. If you know of more historical quarries in Georgia, please contact me. Peggy B. Perazzo)

• Map - Georgia - Map of Georgia Showing Distribution of Granite Areas and Location of Granite Quarries. Based on map of Georgia Geological Survey, Bulletin 9-A, 1902. Plate XXIV (photograph)

  (From Granites of the Southeastern Atlantic States, Bulletin 426, 1910)

• Georgia Quarries (present-day companies), presented by superpages.com.

• Atlanta, Georgia - Atlantic Steel Co. – Saw Blades for Stone (The following information is from an advertisement in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, March, 1925, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 185.)

  Atlantic Steel Co.

  General Offices, Furnaces and Mills

  Atlanta, Ga.

  Saw Blades

  Accurately Rolled From Best Grade Special Analysis Steel

  Atlantic Steel Company’s Stone Saw Blades Work Right Because

  They are Made Right.

  Everyone Guaranteed

  Prompt Shipments

• Atlanta, Georgia - Vulcan Materials Company - Southeast Division (present-day company - region includes Georgia and South Carolina)

• Ball Circle, Cherokee County, Georgia - Blue Circle Quarry (photographs), presented by the Georgia Mineral Society. (GMS field trip in 2000)
• Bartow County, Georgia - History of Mining in Bartow County, Georgia, U.S.A. Comments by Frank Dodd Smith and presented by Tony Smith.

• Canton, Georgia – The Georgia Marble Finishing Works (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 505.)

  The Georgia Marble Finishing Works.

  Canton, GA.

  50 Dollars

  As a mid-summer diversion to the trade we will give fifty dollars in cash prizes for the best design sent to us in competition styles divided as follows and prizes attached.

  (The following headings are over the information presented below in the ad..)

  Cottage monument $5.00 $3.00 $2.00

  Spire monument $5.00 $3.00 $2.00

  Double Die monument $5.00 $3.00 $2.00

  Single Die monument $5.00 $3.00 $2.00

  Headstone monument $5.00 $3.00 $2.00

To be neat and attractive not fancy. Fine drawings not necessary, ideas and the practical selling quality designs possess, will be the standard in judging merit. Designs must be submitted by or before Sept. 15th.

• Canton, Georgia - Georgia Marble Finishing Works - Creole Beauties, Being A Collection of Specimens of Monumental Marble Designs., No. 7, Price List Of Regal Beauties. No. 9, (Book) Georgia Marble Finishing Works, Canton, Georgia, 1907-1909, 16 pp. (Copy located in the Degolyer Library Collection in the “Trade Catalogs” section. Degolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.) [PDF]

• Carlton, Georgia – the Royalty Granite Corp. Granite Quarries. In 1995 this company was operating two granite quarries in Madison County. At that time the company headquarters was in Carlton, Georgia. (From United States Geological Survey, Mineral Industries Surveys – Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995, prepared in January 1997.)
• Elbert County, Georgia - Granite Quarries in Northeast Georgia (Map of Granite Quarries)

• Elberton Area, Georgia - Granite Quarries Open to the Public (From Mining and Mineral Operations in the United States: A Visitor’s Guide, by Staff, Bureau of Mines, Area Mineral Resource Offices, U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967, pp. 20.)

  “The average American today has probably never heard of the gold mines of Georgia, but they contributed significantly to America ’s wealth until overshadowed by the California discoveries. In fact, experienced gold miners from Georgia played a role in discovery and development of western goldfields. Today (circa 1967), clay is the most important mineral product of the state.”

“Ga. 17 and 77. - Granite quarries in the Elberton district are open to the public (circa 1967). Tours are arranged by the Elberton Granite Association, Inc. Elberton is about 35 miles east of Athens, Georgia, at the intersection of Ga. 77 and 17.”

• Elbert County, Georgia – Boyd Granite Co. Granite Quarry. In 1995 this company was operating a granite quarry in Elbert County. At that time the company headquarters was in Elberton, Georgia. (From United States Geological Survey, "Mineral Industries Surveys - Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995," prepared in January 1997.)
• Elbert County, Georgia – Gold Eagle Quarries Inc. Granite Quarry. In 1995 this company was operating a granite quarry in Elbert County. At that time the company headquarters was in Elberton, Georgia. (From United States Geological Survey, "Mineral Industries Surveys - Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995," prepared in January 1997.)
• Elbert County, Georgia – McCannon Granite Co. Granite Quarry. In 1995 this company was operating a granite quarry in Elbert County. At that time the company headquarters was in Elberton, Georgia. In 1995 this company was one of the ten leading dimension stone operations in the United States with sales greater than $500,000. (From United States Geological Survey, “Mineral Industries Surveys - Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995,” prepared in January 1997.)
• Elberton, Georgia - the Elberton Granite Association Membership Directory
• Elberton-Echos Mill, Georgia - Map of Oglesby-Lexington and Elberton-Echols Mill granite areas, Georgia

  fig. 18 (From Granites of the Southeastern Atlantic States, Bulletin 426, 1910)

• Elberton, Georgia, Oglesby Granite Quarries - Mammoth Deposits of Blue Oglesby Granite

  (color postcard photograph, #120837; genuine Curteich-Chicago "C. T. Blue Sky" Post Card; Rose's 5-10-25c Store, Elberton, GA.)

• Elberton, Georgia - A partial view of the Harmony "Superior" Blue Granite Quarries, Harmony Blue Granite Co., Inc.

  (color postcard photograph, #36763; Saggus Studio, Elberton, Ga.; Dextone Genuine Natural ColorMade only by Dexter Press, Pearl River, N.Y.; postmark Aug. 9, 1948)

• Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia Sterling Blue Quarry, Republic Granite Co., Inc.

  (color postcard photograph, C-16431; A partial pictorial view of our Sterling Blue Quarry. Republic Granite Co., Inc., operating; Highpoint & Sterling Granite Companies, Elberton, Georgia; by Colorama; no postmark)

• Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia - J & B Granite Company (present-day company), 1161 Jenkins Road, Elberton, GA 30635; (706) 283-6133.

• Georgia - Georgia Construction Aggregate Association

  • History of Georgia Crushed Stone Association

• Gordon County, Georgia - the Hamrick Black Marble Quarry (AKA “Liberty Church Quarry.”)

  According to the present owner, Greg Schulz, the quarry was also known as the “Liberty Church Quarry” and possibly the “Liberty Church Road Quarry.” The photographs presented below were donated by Greg Schulz, and they show various aspects of his quarry. He states that the quarry was mined in the 1950s by the Georgia Marble Company, but he has been unable to obtain any records on the quarry from the company. He states “The rock is calcareous mudstone...or black marble with white calcite veins.” The total size today is approximately 100 feet by 100 feet, but there is a lot of rubble filling the quarry so it is not possible at present to determine the depth. Local people have claimed that the quarry was about 200 feet deep. Deep down in the quarry there is black marble, but the higher stone is called “bluestone” by the local people. If you have any information on this quarry, you can contact Greg Schulz directly. Peggy B. Perazzo

  Hamrick Black Marble Quarry (AKA “Liberty Church Quarry.”)

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