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

• Tate, Pickens County, Georgia – Monumental Shop Interior (from The Story of Georgia Marble, no date of publication, pp. 10-11)

  

  Panoramic view of one section of the monumental shops at Tate, Georgia

• Tate, Pickens County, Georgia – the Georgia Marble Company Plant (Marble) (from The Story of Georgia Marble, no date of publication, pp. 5)

  Airplane view of the Tate plant of the Georgia Marble Company. There are two others.

• Tate, Georgia – the Georgia Marble Company Plant (Marble) (Excerpt from Examples of Bank Work in Georgia Marble, Georgia Marble Coompany)

  The Georgia Marble Company plants at Tate, Nelson, and Marietta, Georgia, are slightly north of central Georgia. A circle with a radius of 1,000 miles covers practically all of eastern, central, southeastern, southwestern and Midwestern United States. Freight rates are equitable. A number of rail routes offer rapid service to all sections of the country. the ports of Savannah, Jackson and New Orleans are nearby and expedite foreign shipments and shipments to points where water rates are advantageous. (pp. 32)

  Airplane view of the Tate Plant of the Georgia Marble Company. Note the great number of marble blocks in reserve about the property. More than 200,000 cubic feet of marble in the rough is kept on hand at all times. With this tremendous stock there is no delay when an order is received, no matter how big the order may be. (pp. 33)

  A saw that has no teeth, yet saws through one of the hardest of all building materials – Georgia Marble. This closeup view shows the marble saw at work. The blades of the saw have cut half way through the huge block. Sand and water are constantly fed to the saw blades and these blades owe their ability to cut to the abrasive qualities of the sand. (pp. 36)

  Quarry Views, Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia. (pp. 37)

  Carving cannot be artistically produced by machinery. Men who are highly skilled in their craft and who have a great deal of the artist in their makeup are necessary to produce artistic carving. Such men are hard to find, but the Georgia Marble Company is fortunate in having a large staff of the finest carvers in America. (pp. 38)

  • Tate, Georgia – the Georgia Marble Company  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, Vol. 5, No. 8, December 1927, pp. 43)

    Georgia Marble – The Georgia Marble Company, Tate Georgia; New York, 1328 Broadway; Atlanta, 511 Bona Allen Building; Chicago, Illinois, 456 Monadnock Building.

    Public Schools
    Georgia Marble was selected as exterior trim for about thirty-five New York City public schools only after a most careful investigation as to its merits, especially its wearing and weathering qualities.

    The Portico motive and the steps and door sills are White Georgia marble.  This marble for steps is no experiment; it is recognized as having the wearing qualities necessary for this use.

(photo caption in Georgia Marble Co., Tate, Georgia, advertisement)  “A New York public school entrance portico.  William J. Gempert, Architect, Superintendent of School Buildings.” (Advertisement from The Monumental News, December 1927, pp. 43.

• Tate (near), Pickens County, Georgia – Georgia Marble Company’s Plant (Marble), from Geology of the Tate Quadrangle, Georgia, Bulletin No. 43, by W. S. Bayley, University of Illinois, Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, 1928, pp. 148.

  Plate XI. Airplane view of the Georgia Marble Company’s Plant, Tate, Pickens County, Georgia.

• Tate, Georgia – the Georgia Marble Company – Mausoleum Advertisement from The Monumental News, August 1929, pp. 394.
  

  Georgia Marble – The Georgia Marble Company, Tate Georgia

  “The white marble Temple of Hercules at Tivoli, near Rome was constructed in the year 300 A.D.  This beautiful circular edifice with its Corinthian columns was the model for the classic Pires Memorial, which is entirely of white Georgia Marble.  No other monumental stone could carry out the beauty of design, and the marvelous durability of the original quite so well.”

  “Pires Monument, Dallas, Texas.  Design by Herbert M. Greene.” (from The Monumental News, August 1929, pp. 394)

• Tate (near), Pickens County, Georgia – the Georgia Marble Company – Cherokee Quarry No. 1 (Marble), from A Preliminary Report on the Marbles of Georgia, Bulletin No. 1, by S. W. McCallie, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 2nd ed., 1907, pp. 54. (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)

  Plate XV. Cherokee Quarry, No. 1, Georgia Marble Company, near Tate, Pickens County, Georgia. (pp. 60)

• Tate (near), Pickens County, Georgia – Georgia Marble Company – Cherokee Quarry No. 2 (Marble), from A Preliminary Report on the Marbles of Georgia, Bulletin No. 1, by S. W. McCallie, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 2nd ed., 1907, pp. 64. (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)

  Plate XVI. Cherokee Quarry No. 2, Georgia Marble Company, near Tate, Pickens County, Georgia.

• Tate, Pickens County, Georgia – the Georgia Marble Company – Cherokee Quarry (Marble), from Geology of the Tate Quadrangle, Georgia, Bulletin No. 43, by W. S. Bayley, University of Illinois, Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, 1928, pp. 152.

  Plate XIV. Cherokee Quarry of the Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Pickens County, Georgia.

• Tate, Georgia - Georgia Marble Company's White Cherokee Quarry (Mable) From Mineral Resources of the Appalachian Region, A compilation of information on the mineral resources, mineral industry, and geology of the Appalachian Region, Geological Survey Professional Paper 580, U. S. Geological Survey and the U. S. Bureau of Mines, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1968, pg. 196.

  Fig. 61. Georgia Marble Company's White Cherokee Quarry

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