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Home > Georgia > List of Quarries in Georgia & Quarry Links, Photographs and Articles
(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)
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)
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]
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.”
Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia - J & B Granite Company (present-day company), 1161 Jenkins Road, Elberton, GA 30635; (706) 283-6133.
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
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