Georgia

Research Resources - Georgia

• Archives
  • Digital Library of Georgia - “The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.” (You can browse through the following categories: Time Period, Georgia County, Institution, Media Type, and Collections A-Z.)
  • Georgia Archives - Vanishing Georgia Collection on the Digital Library of Georgia web site. (More information on the Vanishing Georgia Collection can be obtained by visiting “Vanishing Georgia Collection” presented by the Digital Library of Georgia - Galileo.
  • Pickens County - Archives of Pickens County, presented by Roadside Georgia.
• Historical Sources
  • Along the Georgia-Florida Coast, presented by the National Register of Historic Places.
  • American Local History Network - Georgia
  • Black History Society Photograph Collection, presented by the Digital Library of Georgia.

  • Cherokee Resources – Cherokee Indians in Georgia

  • De Kalb County History Center, Decatur, Georgia.
  • Digital Library of Georgia - “The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia 's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.” (You can browse through the following categories: Time Period, Georgia County, Institution, Media Type, and Collections A-Z.)

    The following subjects areas are available on the Digital Library of Georgia web site: The Arts, Business & Industry, Education, Folklife, Government & Politics, Land & Resources, Literature, Media, Peoples & Cultures, Religion, Science & Medicine, Sports & Recreation, and Transportation.

  • The Etowah Valley Historical Society of Bartow County, Georgia
  • Georgia Buildings, Structures, & Architects on the Philadelphia Architects & Buildings Project (PAB) web site. You can search the database for buildings, structures, and architects either as a visitor or you can register free. You cannot search for specific cities, but you can search for county locations. There are no photographs presented, but the location and/or address and the name of the architect are included if known; and the historic registration information is also included.
  • Georgia Capitol Online Tours (photographs and history), presented by the Georgia Secretary of State.
  • Georgia Division of Archives and History
  • Georgia GenWeb Project Website
  • Georgia Granite: Elberton, Hartwell, Royston - Scenic Drive in Georgia, by Donald W. Pfitzer & LeRoy Powell, available from various web sites on the Internet. (Falcon Publishing, 825 Great Northern Boulevard, #327, Helena, MT 59601; Phone (406) 442-6597; Fax: (406) 442-2995; Website: www.insiders.com)

    “The 35-mile drive begins at Elberton, the heart of granite quarrying, and continues past the Georgia Guidestones, 20-foot high granite monoliths, espousing the conservation of mankind....” Copyright Donald W. Pfitzer & LeRoy Powell Published by Falcon Publishing.

  • Georgia Historical and Genealogical Societies
  • Georgia Historical Markers, presented by Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
  • Georgia Historical Markers, presented by GeorgiaInfo.
  • Georgia Historical Resources, presented by Pickens County, Georgia.
  • Georgia Historical Society
  • Georgia History, presented by the GAGenWeb Project.
  • Georgia Marble Festival in Jasper, Georgia – Annual Celebration held in early October, by the Pickens County Chamber of Commerce.
    • Georgia Marble Festival Tours
    • Georgia Marble Quarry Tours
    • (From the 2010 web site) “Don't miss the opportunity to take a guided tour of the world’s largest open pit marble quarry at Polycor Georgia Marble Company’s Tate operation.  This is the only time of the year the quarries are open to the public!  On your two hour tour, see the Nelson Marble Museum and learn about the multitude of uses for marble and marble by-products….”
  • Georgia - the Peach State, presented by Netstate.com.
  • Georgia State Parks
  • Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, presented by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
  • Getting To Know Georgia: A Guide For Exploring Georgia’s History and Government, published by the Office of the Secretary of State Cathy Cox, updated June 2003. [PDF]
  • Gwinnett Historical Society
  • Hall County Georgia Historical Photograph Collection, a part of the Hall County, Georgia, Photograph and Genealogy Collection
  • Historical Society of Forsyth County, Inc.
  • Histories of Georgia’s Capital Cities, presented by Georgia.gov.
  • Jasper & Pickens County, Georgia, presented by Georgia Mountain Parkway (including Jasper, Tate, Marble Hill, Talking Rock, and Hinton)
  • Kennesaw Historical Society, Inc.
  • Marble Valley Historical Society,Jasper, Georgia.
  • National Register - Online Travel Itineraries in the United States
  • The New Georgia Encyclopedia, presented by the Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
  • North Georgia History, by Randy Golden/Golden Ink.
  • Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society
  • Oakland Cemetery - Historic Oakland Cemetery,Atlanta Georgia.
  • Our Georgia History, presented by Golden Ink.
  • Pickens County Georgia - “An Historical Sketch of Pickens County” (including the marble and other minerals), WPA Project, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Adapted from: History of Pickens county, by Luke E. Tate. 1935, presented by Pickens County, Georgia.
  • Pickens County, Georgia - Some Historical and Genealogical Resources of Pickens County, Georgia
  • Pickens County, Georgia – Pickens County History You can view photographs of the local quarries and read about the history of Pickens County, Georgia, in the “History” section of the web site.
  • Railfanning the Georgia Northeastern Railroad
  • Railways - A Summary of the State of Railroads in the United States, Including the Prospects for a Pacific Railroad, from the Report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852 Seventh Census. Web site presented by the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.
  • Rockdale County Historical Society, 967 Milstead Avenue, P.O. Box 351, Conyers, GA 30207 ; (770) 483-4398.
  • Rosswell Historical Society
  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities (1884-1922), on the University of Georgia ’s Libraries web site.
  • Slot-and-Tab Tombs - the Mystery of the Rural Cenotaphs
  • Statues and Monuments in Georgia, presented by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia.
  • Stone Mountain Historic District, presented by the National Park Service.
  • The Story of Georgia's Capitols and Capital Cities, by Edwin L. Jackson, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia.
  • Taylor County Historical-Genealogical Society
  • Union County Historical Society
  • Upson Historical Society
  • WPA Life Histories from Georgia
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Georgia
• Libraries
  • Digital Library of Georgia - “The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.” (You can browse through the following categories: Time Period, Georgia County, Institution, Media Type, and Collections A-Z.)
  • Georgia State University – William Russell Pullen Library, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Pickens County Library, 100 Library Lane in Jasper, GA 30143; (706) 692-5411.
  • Sequoyah Regional Library, Canton, Georgia.
  • University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
    • Georgia State University - William Russell Pullen Library, Atlanta, Georgia
    • University of Georgia’s Libraries Map Collection
• Museums
  • Elberton Granite Museum and Exhibit
  • Georgia Museums on the Web, presented epodunk.com.
  • Marble Museum (located in the Nelson City Hall 500 Kennesaw Avenue, Nelson, Georgia in Pickens County; phone 770-735-2211. (The museum includes a year-round exhibit that includes “examples of fine marble and shows the history of marble mining in Pickens County.” Many stone cutters and other workers who migrated from either Italy or Scotland in the early years of the industry settled in Nelson to work in the area’s marble industry.)

  • Tellus Science Museum (The Weinman Mineral Museum closed in November 2007 and reopened as the Tellus Science Museum in 2008.)

  • Weinman Mineral Museum – See: Tellus Science Museum (The Weinman Mineral Museum closed in November 2007 and reopened as the Tellus Science Museum in 2008.)
• Other
  • 1895 U. S. Atlas - Georgia
  • Attractions in North Georgia, presented on the About North Georgia web site.
  • Cyndi's List Online Research Resources - Georgia
  • Georgia, presented by From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • Georgia Aerial Photographs, presented by the Digital Library of Georgia.
  • Georgia Almanac, presented by Netstate.com.

  • Georgia’s Scenic Highways and Byways, presented by Georgia, an official website of the State of Georgia.

  • Georgia - the Peach State, presented by Netstate.com.
  • Georgia’s Fast Facts, presented by 50states.com.
  • Georgia’s Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Guide
  • The New Georgia Encyclopedia, presented by the Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
  • Northeast Georgia Mountains on the Web
  • TopoZone – "The TopoZone is the Web's center for recreational and professional topographic map users." (Includes a place name search form.)
  • University of Georgia’s Libraries Map Collection
  • World Almanac for Kids Online – Georgia
  • WPA Life Histories from Georgia
  • Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS (Search the USGS Geographic Names Database)

The Georgia Stone Industry

• 1856 - The following excerpt is from the 1856

  "The Marble-Workers' Handbook," pg. 250, "Some quarries have been worked in Cherokee Co., Georgia."

• 1882 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry in 1882 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1882, J. S. Powell, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1883. Excerpts from the chapters on 1) "Structural Materials" and 2) "The Useful Minerals of the United States."
• 1883 and 1884 - The Georgia Stone Industry in 1883 and 1884 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Years 1883 and 1884 (PDF images of sections), Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1885.
• 1885 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry in 1885 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1885 (PDF images of sections), David T. Day, Geologist, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpt from the chapter on "Structural Materials," by H. S. Sproull.
• 1886 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1886 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1886 (PDF images of sections), David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpts from the chapters on 1) "Structural Materials," by William C. Day; 2) "Abrasive Materials," by William A. Raborg, and 3) "Novaculite," by George M. Turner.
• 1887 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1887, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1887 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1888.
• 1887 - the Georgia Quarry Industry circa 1887, “Our Building Stone Supply”  (Quarrying in the United States circa 1887), by George P. Merrill, Scientific American Supplement, No. 577, January 22, 1887, & “Our Building Stone Supply” Conclusion, Scientific American Supplement, No. 578, January 29, 1887.
• 1888 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1888, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1888 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1890.
• 1889 and 1890 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1889, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1889 and 1890 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1892.
• 1891 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1891, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1891 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1893.
• 1892 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1892, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1892 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1893.
• 1893 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1893, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1893 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1894.
• 1894 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry 1894 (transcription) from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part IV. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1894, Nonmetallic Products (PDF images of sections). Excerpts from the chapter on "Stone," by William C. Day. Click here if you wish to read the entire chapter on "Stone."
• 1895 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1895, Excerpts from Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part III. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1895, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896.
• 1896 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1896, Excerpts from Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part V. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1896, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897.
• 1897 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1897, Excerpts from Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part V. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1896, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
• 1898 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1898, Excerpts from Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part VI. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1898, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899.
• 1898/1899 - The Georgia Stone Industry - Kinds of Stone Produced by Other States Other Than the State of Maryland (and compared to the stone quarried in Maryland). Excerpt from Maryland Geological Survey, Vol. II, "A History of the (Maryland) Quarrying Industry," by Edward B. Mathews, 1898.
• 1899 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1899, Excerpts from Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part VI. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1899, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.
• 1900 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1900, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1900 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1901.
• 1901 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1901, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1901 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1902.
• 1902 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1902, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1902 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904.
• 1903 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1903, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904.
• 1904 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1904, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1904 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1905.
• 1905 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1905, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1905 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1906.
• 1906 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1906, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1906 (PDF images of sections), George Otis Smith, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1907.
• 1907 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1907, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1907 (PDF images of sections), Part II.  Nonmetallic Products, George Otis Smith, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey,  Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1908.
• 1908 - The Georgia Stone and Building Industry, 1908 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1908 (PDF images of sections), Part II - Nonmetallic Products, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1909. Excerpts from the book are from the chapters on: 1) "Slate," by A. T. Coons; 2) "Stone," by A. T. Coons; 3) part of chapter on "Abrasive Materials," by W. C. Phalen.
• 1923 - The Mineral Industry of Georgia, Excerpts from Hand-Book Mineral Resources of Georgia, by S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, 3rd ed., Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, 1923, 48 pp. (While the link at the beginning of the section takes you to excerpts from this booklet relating to stone resources of Georgia, you can also read the Hand-Book – Mineral Resources of Georgia in PDF format.)
• 1994 through 2010-2011 - The Mineral Industry of Georgia, United States Geological Survey (1994 through 2010-2011).
• 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)

• Map - Georgia - Map of Oglesby-Lexington and Elberton-Echols Mill granite areas, Georgia

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

• Map - Georgia - Map of Stone Mountain and Lithonia-Conyers-Lawrenceville granite and gneiss area, Georgia

  fig. 19 (From Granites of the Southeastern Atlantic States, Bulletin 426, 1910

• Map - Georgia - Map Piedmont, Georgia, showing areas of porphyritic granite

  fig. 20 (From Granites of the Southeastern Atlantic States, Bulletin 426, 1910)

• “Age and Origin of the Stone Mountain Granite, Lithonia District, Georgia,” Geological Society of America Bulletin: Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 1067–1077.
• Barstow County, Georgia - History of Mining in Barstow County, Georgia, U.S.A. Comments by Frank Dodd Smith and presented by Tony Smith. (Scroll down to the entry.) (The link for this web site is no longer available, although you can see view it on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
  <http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/FShist.html>
• Elberton, Georgia - “Granite Capital of the World,” presented on Wikipedia.
• Elberton Granite - Wide-Angle Reflection Profiling of the Elberton Granite and Deep Structure of the Inner Piedmont, Southern Appalachians, Using Instantaneous and Ripple-Fired Quarry Blasts (Abstract), by M. O. Khalifa, J. A. Kucinskis, J. E. Clippard, and R. B. Hawman, May, 2001. (The NASA Astrophysics Data System)
• Elberton Granite Association
  • Elberton’s Granite Industry, by Elberton Granite Association, Inc. (The following quote is used with the permission of Elberton Granite Association.) “At the beginning of 1999, 45 granite quarries were in operation within a 25-mile radius of Elberton. More than half of these have been producing stone for monuments for more than 30 years, and have been quarried to depths as much as 150 feet. The remaining quarries are in various stages of more recent development, and are evidence of the abundant supply of this natural resource, which geologists estimate to be approximately 35 miles long and six miles wide.”
  • Elberton’s Granite Museum and Exhibit
  • Granite Facts
• Elberton Granite - The Quarrying and Manufacturing Process, prepared by Elberton Granite Association, Inc., Elberton, Georgia.
• Elberton Granite Industry Flourishes
• Extensive Marble Belt in Georgia (October 1894). The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 26, Issue 10, October 1894, pg. 230. (article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Georgia Granite (photographs and history), presented by the New Georgia Encyclopedia. Photographs of the following quarries are included: the Berkeley Quarry, Oglesby Quarry, and the Pyramid Quarry.
• Georgia Marble (January 1889). The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 21, Issue 1, January 1889, pgs. 14-15. (article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Georgia Marble (December 1891). The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 23, Issue 12, December 1891, pg. 278. (article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress)
• A Georgia Marble Mine (1884), The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 16, Issue 12, December 1884, pgs. 278. (article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Georgia Mountains, presented on the About North Georgia web site.
• Granite Quarry Worker - “The Life of a Quarry Worker” - Background Information - post-quarry activity, presented by Stone Mountain Park. (The direct link to this document is no longer available on the Stone Mountain Park web site, although you can still access it on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:  “The Life of a Quarry Worker – Post trip activity.”)
• The Great Northern Railroad - “Railfanning the Georgia Northeastern Railroad” (Summer 2001), presented on the PeachState Rails web site. (The information below relating to the Georgia marble industry is only a very small portion of this very interesting article on the Georgia Northeastern Railroad.)

  According to this web site, Georgia Marble Company’s railroad at Tate is operated by the Great Northern Railroad (GNRR). Below is a short summary of the information about the GNRR and the local Georgia marble industry. Visit the Peach State Trails web site to read the full, much more extensive article.

  Historical Background: In 1854 the Elijay Railroad was “chartered in 1854 to build a railroad from a connection with the Western and Atlantic at Marietta, GA, north through Elijay to the copper mining region in southeast Tennessee.” By the late 1970s the line operated as two branch lines. One of the lines shipped products south from Tate, Elijay, and Canton including marble from Tate. Operation of Georgia Marble Company’s railroad was acquired by the Great Northern Railroad in 1987, although local interests acquired the road in 1990. Later in 1998 “GNRR acquired and assumed operations of Georgia Marble's railroad, which services Imery/Georgia Marble plants at Tate and Marble Hill.”

  Present-day Operations: Today the Great Northern Railroad operates between Tate, Georgia, and the CSX interchange at Elizabeth (Marietta) five days a week. The Georgia Marble rail lines at Tate and Marble Hill, and the Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad at Blue Ridge, Georgia are also operated by GNRR. The web site also states the the “GNRR runs through a Georgia Marble facility that no is no longer served by rail” at Nelson. Also, there is service to three Imery/Georgia Marble facilities. The Georgia Marble facilities are not open to the public. The Imery/Georgia Marble facility at Jasper provides part of the product that is transported on the GNRR’s run between Tate and Marietta.

• Lithonia District, Georgia - the Arabia Granite Company (Gneiss Quarries). The Arabia Granite Company gneiss quarries in the Lithonia District of Georgia is the subject of an article entitled, "Central Air Plant At A Georgia Quarry," in Mine and Quarry Magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. IX. No. 3 October 1916, pages 924-929, Whole No. 31. The other large quarry operator in the district at that time was the Pine Mountain Granite Company.
• Machines Used in Quarrying Limestone in Georgia (from A Report on the Limestones and Marls of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Bulletin 21, 1910, by J. E. Brantly, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, GA: The Blosser Co., 1916, pp. 243-286)

  Fig. 6. Ingersol-Rand Piston Drill on Tripod (pp. 247)

  Fig. 7. Ingersol-Rand Jackhammer (pp. 248)

  Fig. 8. Vertical Lime Kiln (pp. 254)

  Fig. 9. Sectional Elevation of the Blake Rock Crusher (pp. 263)

  Fig. 10. Gates Gyratory Breaker (Allis-Chalmers) (pp. 266)

  Fig. 11. McLanahan-Stone Single Roll Crusher (pp. 269)

  Fig. 12. Jeffrey Swing Hammer Pulverizer (pp. 271)

  Fig. 13. “Allis-Chalmers Hummer” Pulverizer – Mounted on Steel Truck (pp. 280)

  Fig. 14. Allis Chalmers L.B.H. Hummer Crusher and Pulverizer (pp. 282)

• Pickens County, Georgia, Marble, a part of the GAGenWeb Project.

  Pure marble is one of the most reknowned products of Pickens County, which is located at the southern end of the Appalachians in the northern part of Georgia. According to the web site:

  The marble deposit runs from five to seven miles long, half that in width, and with a depth as deep as 2,000. The local Indians are known to have used the marble as early as 800 A.D. The first marble quarries and the first marble mill were opened in the 1830s. In 1884 the Georgia Marble Company was organized, and they took control of all of the marble land in Tate. In 1883 the marble became available outside of the region due to the opening of the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad in 1883. The Georgia Marble Company operated successfully until concrete became widely used as a building material. Many well-known buildings were constructed of Georgia marble from the Tate quarries. (You can visit the Georgia Structures section of the Stone Quarries & Beyond web site to see a list of some of the buildings and structures created from the marble from the Tate, Georgia, deposit.)

• Pickens County History Marble Quarrying. (The following quote is used with the permission of the Pickens County Chamber of Commerce. ) "It is believed that the Cherokees mined marble and quartz here, but it was a discovery by Henry Fitzsimmons, an itinerant Irish stone cutter, in 1835 that began a new period in the modern history of the county. He discovered the world's richest deposit of white crystalline marble in the region known to the Cherokees as 'Long Swamp Valley' on land owned by Samuel Tate. The quarrying operation that he started lasted only a few years; in 1884 Colonel Tate took over the operation, founding the Georgia Marble Company. Over one hundred years later, Georgia Marble Company maintains its reputation as one of the world's largest producers of marble products."
• Rome (near), Georgia - A Great Deposit of Ornamental Marble (near Rome, Georgia) (January 1887). The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 19, Issue 1, January 1887, pg. 12. (article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Soapstone, Asbestos, and Talc Deposits in Georgia (circa 1914) - A Report on the Asbestos, Talc and Soapstone Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin No. 29, by Oliver B. Hopkins, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, Atlanta, Ga., Chas. P. Byrd, State, Printer, 1914, transcribed by T. P. Knunesh.
• Stone Mountain-Lithonia District, Georgia - “The (Georgia) Stone Industry,” (PDF) excerpt from Geology of The Stone Mountain-Lithonia District, Georgia, by Leo Anthony Herrmann, Georgia State Division of Conservation, Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, Atlanta: 1954, pp. 80-122. (Used with permission.)
• Stone Mountain Park, Georgia. Stone Mountain Park is located one mile east of downtown Atlanta. This site includes a photograph of the mountain.
  • Stone Mountain Park, presented on the About North Georgia web site.
  • Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA) SMMA is a “State authority that is self-supporting and receives no tax dollars, is responsible for Georgia 's Stone Mountain Park.”
    • Discover Stone Mountain for Teachers - Educational (including available field trips) is available in the “Educational” section of the web site.
    • Stone Mountain History & Park Attractions are two of the choices in the “About” section of the web site.
  • Stone Mountain, Georgia – Geology of Stone Mountain, Georgia, by Pamela J. W. Gore. This site includes photographs of the quarries. (This link is no longer available, although you can view the document on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
    <http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/stonemtn/stonemountain.html>

  • Stone Mountain, Georgia – Virtual Field Trip, presented by Pamela J. W. Gore, Georgia. Perimeter College. (This link is no longer available, although you can view the document on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
    <http://facstaff.gpc.edu/%7Epgore/stonemtn/text.htm>

  • Stone Mountain, Georgia, presented on the About North Georgia web site.
    • Creating the Carving at Stone Mountain, by Randy Goldin.
  • Stone Mountain Natural History, presented on the About North Georgia web site.
• William Weinman Mineral Museum, Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia.

Printed Sources

• NOTE regarding Georgia Geologic Survey Books: To obtain the publications listed below or request information on them from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources - Geologic Branch.
• Google Book Search - You can use Google Book Search to search for specific subjects in thousands of books available through the Google Book Search - both books under copyright and in the public domain. Hundreds of books are added regularly, so check back if you do not find books on the subject for which you are seeking information. Some of the books published prior to 1923 are available in their entirety and can be downloaded to you computer for your personal use.
• Abstracts of Theses on Georgia Geology, Through 1974, Bulletin 89, compiled and edited by Falma Moye, 1976, 94 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• “Age and Origin of the Stone Mountain Granite, Lithonia District, Georgia,” by James A. Whitney, Lois M. Jones, and Raymond L. Walker, Geological Society of America Bulletin: Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 1067–1077.
• An accelerated Economic Minerals Program: A Proposal to Georgia Department of Natural Resources, MP-7, prepared by Economic Minerals Advisory Committee, 1984. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology, Through 1959, Bulletin 79, by H. R. Cramer, A. T. Allen, Jr., and J. G. Lester, 1967, 368 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology, 1960-1964, Bulletin 84, by H. R. Cramer, 1972, 110 pp., 2nd printing, 1979. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology, 1965-1970, Bulletin 90, by H. R. Cramer, 1976, 84 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology, 1971-1979, Bulletin 101, by H. R. Cramer, 1986, 310 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Areal report/reference on the granites and gneisses/building stone in Georgia, by T. L. Watson, Georgia Geological Survey, Bulletin 9 A, 1903. (Citation from Economic Geology of the United States, by Heinrich Ries, 1907.)
• Areal report/reference on the marbles in Georgia, by McCallie, Georgia Geological Survey, Bulletin 1, 1894. (Citation from Economic Geology of the United States, by Heinrich Ries, 1907)
• Asbestos, Talc and Soapstone Deposits of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 29, by Oliver B. Hopkins, 1914, 319 pp.
• Beauty in Stone: The Industrial Films of the Georgia Marble Company. (from the web site) “This orientation essay begins with brief summaries of the two digitized marble history movies--then subsequent sections provide additional contextual information about Georgia marble geology, the prehistoric and early historic uses of Georgia marble, the Georgia Marble Company, Georgia marble projects, Georgia marble quarrying and finishing processes, and related Vanishing Georgia images. ”
  • New Face on Capitol Hill (film/movie), presented by Georgia Marble Company, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Tourist Division. Promotional films on Georgia industry. RG 28-4-6, Georgia Archives, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. (1961)

    “New Face on Capitol Hill is a fifteen-minute industrial film from 1961 that exhibits the labor and craftsmanship of Georgia Marble Company employees as they quarry, finish and carve Georgia marble for the reconstruction of east façade of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C....”

  • Producing America’s Buried Treasure (film/movie), Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Tourist Division. Promotional films on Georgia industry. RG 28-4-6, Georgia Archives, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. (1950-1959)

    “Producing America’s Buried Treasure is a twenty-one-minute industrial film from the 1950s on the history of the Georgia Marble Company and the company’s marble operations in Pickens County, Georgia, West Rutland, Vermont and Friendsville, Tennessee. Also documented in the film are the limestone and serpentine industries and their operations in Russellville, Alabama and Alberene, Virginia. The film begins by depicting Henry Fitzsimmons’ serendipitous discovery of the Long Swamp Valley marble vein in Pickens County, Georgia....”

• “Benditcha Sea Vuestra Memoria: Sephardic Jewish Cemeteries in the Caribbean and Eastern North America,” by David Mayer Gradwohl, in Markers XV, Association for Gravestone Studies, 1998. (Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, USA, Caribbean, Jamaica, Portugal, Virgin Islands)
• Berkeley Granite Company, Elberton, Georgia – Wholesale Price List, Berkeley Blue Memorials, 1952 Design Series (cemetery stone and mausoleum catalog)
• Bibliography and Index of Georgia Geology, 1980 through 1982, OFR 84-5, American Geological Institute, 1983, 131 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Bibliography and Index of Georgia Geology, 1985-1987, OFR-90-1, 1989, 77 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Bibliography and Index of Georgia Geology, 1988-1991, OFR-92-4, 1992, 137 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Bibliography and Index of Georgia Geology, 1992-1994, OFR-96-1, Geo Ref Information System, 1996, 71 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• “Building in War Times” (World War I), in Stone, An Illustrated Magazine, July 1917.  (photo caption)  “Banking Office of Brown Bros. & Co., New York – At Hanover and Beaver Streets. Architects: Delano & Aldrich, New York. Built of Georgia white marble from the Georgia Marble Co.  General contractors: Marc Eidlitz & Son, New York.  Cut stone contractor: J. J. Spurr & Sons, Harrison, N.J.” pp. 357)
• Bureau of the Census, Population Schedules, Stone Mountain District, DeKalb County, 1850-1920. (Georgia quarry-related information)
• Bureau of the Census, Mines and Quarries General Reports, U.S Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.; 1922 and 1933. (Georgia quarry-related information)
• Bureau of the Census, Mines and Quarries Special Reports of 1902, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1905. (Georgia quarry-related information)
• The Carbonate Rocks in the Coosa Valley Area, Georgia, RT-14, by W. H. McLemore and V. J. Hurst, 1970, University of Georgia, Athens, 170 pp., 2nd printing 1998. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• “Catholic National Shrine in Marble” (pdf),Stone, Vol. XLVI, No. 7, July 1925, Stone Publishing Company, pp. 415-416.
• Ceramic and Structural Clays, Shales, and Slates of Bartow County, Georgia, IC-64, by B. J. O'Connor, 1984, 163 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Ceramic and Structural Clays, Shales, and Slates of Murray County, Georgia, IC-70, by B. J. O'Connor, 1988, 81 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Ceramic and Structural Clays, Shales, and Slates of Polk County, Georgia, IC-71, by B. J. O'Connor, 1988, 130 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Ceramic and Structural Clays, Shales, and Slates of Walker County, Georgia, IC-72, by B. J. O'Connor, 1988, 158 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Ceramic and Structural Clays, Shales, and Slates of Whitfield County, Georgia, IC-73, by B. J. O'Connor, 1988, 86 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Ceramic and Structural Clays, Shales and Slates of Gordon County, Georgia, IC-69, by B. J. O'Connor, 1987, 106 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• The Common Rocks and Minerals of Georgia, IC-5, by L. Mitchell, 1935, 6 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Convincing Proof: Modern Examples in Georgia, Tate, Georgia: The Georgia Marble Co., 1925, 8 pp. (List of buildings and memorials which have been constructed wholly or in part with Georgia Marble. Includes list of prominent architects and sculptors.)
• Correlation of Some Metamorphic Rocks in the Central Carolina Piedmont, by T. L. Kesler, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 55, 1944. pp. 755-782.
• Corundum Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin 2 of the State of Georgia Geological Survey, by Francis P. King, 1894, 133 pp.
• Creole Beauties, Being A Collection of Specimens f Monumental Marble Designs., No. 7, Price List of Regal Beauties. No. 9, 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]
• "Current Technology in the Georgia Marble Industry," by N. Severinghaus, Jr., Min. Eng., Vol. 9, 1957, pp. 1341-1344.
• Description of the Elllijay Quadrangle, Georgia-North Carolina-Tennessee; Ellijay Folio, by Laurence La Forge and W. C. Phalen, U. S. Geological Survey, Folio 187, 1913. 18 pp.
• Diabase of the Georgia Piedmont, by J. G. Lester and A. T. Allen, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 61, 1950, pp. 1217-1224.
• “Do-It-Yourself Immortality: Writing One's Own Epitaph,” by Karl S. Guthke, in Markers XX, pp. 110-153, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, USA, Crete, England, France, Italy, Germany, Samoa).
• Dolomites and Magnesian Limestones in Georgia, IC-14, by A. S. Furcron, 1942, 30 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Early Gravestone Art in Georgia and South Carolina, by Diane Williams Coombs, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986. (Citation from the Association For Gravestone Studies publication.)
• “Eighteenth Century Gravestone Carvers of the Upper Narragansett Basin: Gabriel Allen,” by Vincent F. Luti, in Markers XX, Association for Gravestone Studies, 2003. (Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, South Carolina, USA)
• Elberton Georgia Granite:  Geology and Industry Insights, Paul A. Schroeder and Gillis O. Allard, Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, AAPG Foundation Trustee Associates Field Trip – October 26, 2010, 36 pp. (This link is no longer available, although you can read the document on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
  <http://www.gly.uga.edu/Schroeder/AAPG_2010_FieldGuide_small.pdf>
• "Elberton Quarries Embrace New Technology," Elberton Graniteer, Elberton Granite Association, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 6-7.
• Examples of Work in Georgia Marble, The Georgia Marble Co., Tate Georgia, 1925.
• Excursions in Southeastern Geology, Vol. 1, by R.W. Frey, ed., 1980, 278 pp., published by American Geological Institute.
• Excursions in Southeastern Geology, Vol. 2, by R.W. Frey, ed., 1980, 304 pp., published by American Geological Institute.
• Field Excursion: The Georgia Marble District, GB-1, W. R. Power and E. H. Reade, for Southeastern Section, Geological Society of America, 1962, 21 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Field Excursion: Stone Mountain-Lithonia District, GB-2, by W. H. Grant, for southeastern Section, Geological Society of America, 1962, 21 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• The Flagstone Industry of Georgia, IC-12, by A. S. Furcron, 1940, revised 1964, 5 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Georgia, A State History, by Buddy Sullivan in association with The Georgia Historical Society,
  Hardcover, 2003, 208 pp.
• Georgia Beauties:  Catalog Number Twenty-Two (pdf), The Georgia Marble Finishing Works, Builders of Fine Monuments, Canton, Georgia (no date of publication – possibly 1940s – catalog of cemetery monuments, urns, and vases)
• The Georgia Historical Society’s Georgia Historical Marker Program Information Bulletin Board
• “Georgia History in Pictures: The Story of the Georgia Marble Dynasty,” by Robert S. Davis in Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume LXXXIX, Number 3 Fall 2005.
• “The (Georgia) Stone Industry,” excerpt from Geology of The Stone Mountain-Lithonia District, Georgia, by Leo Anthony Herrmann, Georgia State Division of Conservation, Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, Atlanta: 1954, pp. 80-122. 
• Geologic Features of Eastern Pickens, Dawson, and Western Lumpkin Counties, Georgia, edited by John O. Costello, 37 th Annual Field Trip, Georgia Geological Society, October 12, and 13, 2002, Georgia Geological Society Guidebooks, Vol. 22, No. 1, October 2002.
• Geologic Guide to Stone Mountain State Park, GG-4, by R. L. Atkins and L. G. Joyce, 1980, 29 pp., reprinted 1987. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Geologic Map of Georgia, Georgia Division of Mines, Mining and Geology, Scale 1:500,000, 1939.
• "Geological and Topographical Features of the Region About Atlanta, Georgia," by C. W. Purington, Am. Geologist, Vol. 14, 1894, pp. 105-108.
• Geology and Ground-water Resources of the Atlanta Area, Georgia, Bulletin 55, by S. M. Herrick and H. E. LeGrand, 1949, 124 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Crystalline Rocks, Dawson County, Georgia, IC-30, by C. W. Sever, 1964, 32 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Geology and Mineral Resources Map Index of Georgia, IC-44, by D. E. Lawton and M. G. Pierce, 1972, 43 pp., reprinted 1981. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Geology of Crystalline Rocks, Dawson County, Georgia, Georgia Geological Survey Information Circular 30, Geology and Ground Water Resources of Crystalline Rocks, Dawson County, Georgia by Charles Sever 1964, 30 pp.
• Geology of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Bulletin 26 of the State of Georgia Geological Survey, by Otto Veatch and L. M. Stephenson, 1911, 463 pp.
• Geology of the Crystalline Rocks of Georgia, Bulletin 58, by G. W. Crickmay, 1952, 56 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.).
• The Geology of the Region Around Stone Mountain, Georgia, Ph.D. thesis, by J. G. Lester, University of Colorado, 1938.
• Geology of the Stone Mountain-Lithonia District, Georgia, Bulletin 61, by L. A. Herrmann, 1954, 139 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Geology of Tate Quadrangle, Georgia, Bulletin 43, by W. S. Bayley, 1928, 170 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• The Georgia State Museum, IC-7, G. W. Crickmay and L. Mitchell, 1936, 2 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Georgia’s Stone Mountain, by Willard Neal, Stone Mountain Memorial Association, 1970, 46 pp. (booklet)
• Getting To Know Georgia: A Guide For Exploring Georgia’s History and Government, published by the Office of the Secretary of State Cathy Cox, updated June 2003. [PDF]
• "Granite Outcrop Communities of the Piedmont Plateau in Georgia," by Madeline P. Burbanck and Robert B. Platt, Ecology  45, 1964, pp. 292-305.

• “Granite Poultry Grit:  Barre Aids the ‘Food For Victory’ Program” (pdf), by Paul Wood, Vermont Granite Museum, April 2012.

• Granites and Gneisses of Georgia, Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 9-A, by Thos. L. Watson, 1902, 367 pp.
• "The Granitic Rocks of Georgia and Their Relationships," by T. L. Watson, Am. Geologist, Vol. 27, 1901, pp. 199-225.
• Hand-book – Mineral Resources of Georgia, (PDF) by S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, 3rd ed., Atlanta, Georgia, 1923, 48 pp. (The subjects covered include: Asbestos, barites, bauxite, cements, chlorite, chromite, clays, coal, copper, corundum, feldspar, fluorspar, fullers earth, gold, granites, graphite, iron ores, limestones, manganese, marbles, marls, mica, ocher, potash-bearing slates, pyrite, road materials, sand and gravel, sericite, serpentine, slate, talc and soapstone, tripoli, mineral waters, artesian wells, water powers, and “Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Georgia” – as of 1923.)
• High Magnesium Limestones and Dolostones of Northwest Georgia, Bulletin 126, by M. S. Freddell, 1995, 53 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Historic Bonaventure Cemetery: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society, by Amie Marie Wilson and Mandi Dale Johnson, 126 pp. (Citation from the Association For Gravestone Studies publication.)
• Historic Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Georgia), by Tevi Taliaferro, Images of America series. 126 pp. (Citation from the Association For Gravestone Studies publication.)
• Historical Sketch of the Geological Survey of Georgia, Bulletin 39, by H. S. Cave, 1922, 154 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Hower’s Lightning Slate Reckoner (1888/1904) (PDF) on 33 Practical Sizes Roofing Slate, being a complete and most convenient system of computing the amount in “squares” of any given number of slate…a very convenient ratio on each of the thirty-three different sizes for each two, three and four inches lap, mapping ninety-nine different ratios, together with rules and practical information, To Quarrymen, Operators on Slate, Slate-roofers and others, by F. M. Hower, Proprietor of the Peach Hill Slate Quarry and President of the Eagle Slate Company, Cherryville, Pennsylvania, 1884, 99 pp.

  Contents of this book include: “History of the Slate Industry,” “As to Cost of Maintenance and Repairs,” “How Slate are Put On,” “How to Measure a Roof,” “Punching,” “Slate as Siding,” “Weight of Slate,” “Slate” (dimensions), “Table of Ratios,” “How to Use the Tables,” and “Number of Squares in a plane Roof.”

• The Industrial Minerals of Georgia, by Garland Peyton, Director, Department of Mines, Mining & Geology, and Geological Provinces of Georgia and Their Principal Mineral Resources, by A. S. Fureron, Assistant State Geologist. (Reprinted from Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography and Archeology of Georgia, Georgia Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 56, 1950.)
• Introduction to South Georgia Minerals Program, PR-1, by J. E. Husted, A. S. Furcron, and Federick Bellinger, 1966, 15 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920’s. (See the Price List of Marble and Granite Monuments in Design Book No. 108 below.)  (Note: This is a very large document.)

Front cover of Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, 1920s	Title Page	Design 9010

• Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin 27, by T. P. Maynard, 1912, 296 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Limestone and Marls of the Coastal Plain of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 21, by J. E. Brantly, 1916, 300 pp.
• A Location Guide for Rockhounds, (PDF) Collected by Robert C. Beste, PG, St. Louis, Missouri: Hobbitt Press, 2nd ed., December 1996, 148 pp. (Includes chapters on “Mineral Locations by State,” “Appendix and Glossary,” and “Bibliography.”)
• Machines Used in Quarrying Limestone in Georgia in A Report on the Limestones and Marls of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Bulletin 21, 1910, by J. E. Brantly, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, GA: The Blosser Co., 1916, pp. 243-286)
• "'The Man Who Builded on a Rock Was Wise': The Genesis of Elberton's Granite Industry, 1882-1900," by Clay Ouzts, Georgia Historical Quarterly 86 (winter 2002): 587-616.
• Mantle, Entrance Door and Trim Treatments in Georgia Marble, Designed by I. Moscowitz, Consulting Architect, The Georgia Marble Company, The Georgia Marble Company, Tate Georgia.
• Marbles of Georgia, Bulletin 1, by S. W. McCallie, State of Georgia Geological Survey, 1894, 87 pp.
• Marbles of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol Survey No. 1, 2nd ed., by S. W. McCallie, 1907, 126 pp.
• Memorials in Georgia Marble – Eclipse Designs & Price List, Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia – circa 1920.

Front cover of “Memorials in Georgia Marble – Eclipse Designs” Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia – circa 1920	Title page from “Memorials in Georgia Marble – Eclipse Designs” Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia – circa 1920	The John C. Foley (1874-1917) cemetery monument – one of the many monuments in “Memorials in Georgia Marble – Eclipse Designs” Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia – circa 1920

• Memorials:  To-Day, For:  To-Morrow, by William Henry Deacy, The Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia, 1928, Produced by Thomsen-Ellis Company, Baltimore, New York.  Many of the pages of this book would not fit on the  scanner bed, so they are presented smaller than in the original book.  (The blank pages are not included in this document.) 

Title page from “Memorials: To-Day, For To-Morrow,” by William H. Deacy, the Georgia Marble Co.	Picture of the Purity Urn from “Memorials: To-Day, For To-Morrow,” by William H. Deacy, the Georgia Marble Co. (pp. 50)	Diagram of the Purity Urn from “Memorials: To-Day, For To-Morrow,” by William H. Deacy, the Georgia Marble Co. (pp. 52)

• Methods Used to Assess the Occurrence and Availability of Ground Water in Fractured-Crystalline Bedrock: An Excursion into Areas of Lithonia Gneiss in Eastern Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, Compiled by Lester J. Williams, U.S. Geological Survey, October 2003, pp. 58.
• The Mineral Industry of Georgia, 1991, C-3, by S. W. Sikich and B. J. O'Connor, 1993, U. S. Bureau of Mines, 12 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Mineral Resources Maps for Georgia available for the years 1969, 1976, and 1977. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Mineral Resources of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 23, by S. W. McCallie, 1910, 208 pp.
• Mineral Resources of the Appalachian Region, Geological Survey Professional Paper 580, United States Geological Survey and the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1968, 492 pp. (Covers these states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.)
• Minerals of Georgia: Their Properties and Occurrences, Bulletin 92, by R. B. Cook, 1978, 189 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Mining Directory of Georgia (21st edition), C-2, compiled by B. J. O'Connor and A. Giles, 1998, 92 pp.; 1 plate 1:2,000,000, Mineral Resources of Georgia. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Monuments of Enduring Beauty (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta Georgia, 1920s.

  Monuments of Enduring Beauty, Universal Monument Co., 1920s (front cover)	“Here, in this plant, are created our memorials of enduring beauty, ” 1920s (frontispiece)

• The Murphy Syncline in the Tate Quadrangle, Georgia, Bulletin 75, by William Fairley, 1965, 71 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• New Face on Capitol Hill (film/movie), presented by Georgia Marble Company, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Tourist Division. Promotional films on Georgia industry. RG 28-4-6, Georgia Archives, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. (1961)

  “New Face on Capitol Hill is a fifteen-minute industrial film from 1961 that exhibits the labor and craftsmanship of Georgia Marble Company employees as they quarry, finish and carve Georgia marble for the reconstruction of east façade of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C....”

  • Beauty in Stone: The Industrial Films of the Georgia Marble Company (film/movie) (from the web site) “This orientation essay begins with brief summaries of the two digitized marble history movies--then subsequent sections provide additional contextual information about Georgia marble geology, the prehistoric and early historic uses of Georgia marble, the Georgia Marble Company, Georgia marble projects, Georgia marble quarrying and finishing processes, and related Vanishing Georgia images. ”
• Northwest Georgia Areas Mines, Quarries, and Prospects, RM-11, Georgia Geologic Survey in cooperation with Tennessee Valley Authority, 1946, scale 1:250,000 (not available from the Georgia Geologic Survey) (Satellite Series) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• The Official History of Elbert County: 1790-1935, by John H. McIntosh, Atlanta: Cherokee, 1968.
• Oglesby Blue Granite Mausoleum Catalog (PDF), Oglesby Granite Quarries, Elberton, Georgia, 1937.
• "On The Occurrence of Aplite, Pegmatite, and Tourmaline Bunches in the Stone Mountain Granite of Georgia," by T. L. Watson, Jour. Geol., Vol. 10, 1902, pp. 186-193.
• “Our Building Stone Supply” (pdf)  (Quarrying in the eastern United States circa 1887), from the Scientific American:  A weekly journal of practical information, art, science, mechanics, chemistry, and manufactures, New York, Vol. LVI.  No. 2 (new series), January 8, 1887.
• A Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia, Bulletin 9 of the State of Georgia Geological Survey, by Thomas L. Watson, 1902, 367 pp.
• Personality In Memorials, Marker Catalog No. 106, Comolli Granite Co., Elberton, Georgia (no date of publication)

Front page of Personality in Memorials, Marker Catalog No. 106, Comolli Granite Co., Elberton, Georgia	Page 2 of Personality	Page 17 of Personality

• Physical Geology of Georgia, Bulletin 42, by L. LaForge, C. W. Cooke and others, 1925, 189 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Potential Source for Crushed Granite Aggregate in Heard County, Georgia, GR-3, by R. L. Atkins and R. D. Dickerson, 1981, 6 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• A Preliminary Report on the Corundum Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin 2, by F. P. King, 1894, 133 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia, Bulletin 9A, by T. L. Watson, Assistant Geologist, 1902, 368 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• A Preliminary Report on the Marbles of Georgia, Bulletin 1, by S. W. McCallie, 1894, 2nd ed. 1907, 126 pp. (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Roads and Road Building Materials of Georgia, Bulletin 3, by S. W. McCallie, 1901, 264 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Price List of Marble and Granite Monuments in Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920s. (Price list for Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, above.)

  Front cover of Price List of Marble & Granite Monuments for the Universal Monument Co. Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, 1920s

• "Problems in the Quarrying of Lithonia Georgia Granite," by Nelson Severinghaus, Geological Survey of Georgia, Bulletin 56, 1950, pp. 80-85.
• Proceedings of the Symposium of the Economic Geology of the Southeastern Industrial Minerals, Bulletin 120, S. M. Pickering, editor, 1991, 69 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Producing America’s Buried Treasure (film/movie), Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Tourist Division. Promotional films on Georgia industry. RG 28-4-6, Georgia Archives, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. (1950-1959)

  “Producing America’s Buried Treasure is a twenty-one-minute industrial film from the 1950s on the history of the Georgia Marble Company and the company's marble operations in Pickens County, Georgia, West Rutland, Vermont and Friendsville, Tennessee. Also documented in the film are the limestone and serpentine industries and their operations in Russellville, Alabama and Alberene, Virginia. The film begins by depicting Henry Fitzsimmons’ serendipitous discovery of the Long Swamp Valley marble vein in Pickens County, Georgia....”

• Public Stones in The Vicinity of Fountain Square, Cleveland Ohio: A Walking Tour in Celebration of Earth Science Week 2000, Tour Leader: R. A. Davis, October 14, 2000.
• Public Stones in The Vicinity of Public Square, Cleveland Ohio: A Walking Tour in Celebration of Earth Science Week 2000, Tour Leader: Joseph T. Hannibal, October 13, 2000.
• Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, C-1, edited by L. Toogood, 24th edition, 1998, 50 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Public Roads of Georgia, Second Report: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 24, by S. W. McCallie, 1910, 36 pp.
• Public Roads of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 28, by S. W. McCallie, 1912, 12 pp.
• Quarries as Emergency Reservoirs in the Greater Atlanta Region, OFR-92-2, by M. H. Hall, 1992, 15 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• A Report on the Asbestos, Talc and Soapstone Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin 29, by O. B. Hopkins, 1914, 319 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Geological Survey of Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Charles T. Byrd, 1912, 293 pp. (Information on limestones, slate, and building stones.)
• A Report on the Limestones and Marls of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Bulletin 21, by J. E. Brantly, 1916, 291 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Report on the Slate Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin 34, by H. K. Shearer, 1918, 192 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Roads and Road-Building Materials of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 8, by S. W. McCallie, 1901, 264 pp.
  • Roberts Marble Company Monuments of Georgia – Marble & Granite Monument Catalog (PDF), Ball Ground, Georgia, Since 1878.

    Monuments of Georgia Catalog

• "Rocks to Riches or How Granite Has Benefitted DeKalb," paper presented to DeKalb Historical Society by Gaines Brewster, 1974. (Georgia quarry-related article)
• The Romance of Georgia Marble, by Jerome G. Daneker, Baltimore - New York: Thomsen-Ellis Co., 79 pp.
• “Rural Southern Gravestones: Sacred Artifacts in the Upland South Folk Cemetery,” by Donald Gregory Jeane, in Markers IV, pp. 55-84, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, USA)
• "Seven Men Meet Death and Six Are Injured," Anonymous Author, Atlanta Constitution, 1 March 1929. (Georgia quarry-related article)
• "She's Comin' Round the Mountain," Anonymous Author, Atlanta Journal, 25 April 1942. (Georgia quarry-related article)
• Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography, and Archaeology of Georgia, Bulletin 56, 1950, 160 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography, and Archaeology of Georgia, Bulletin 60, (No. 2), 1953, 336 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Short Contributions to the Geology of Georgia, Bulletin 93, by P. A. Platt, editor, 1978, 104 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Slate Deposits of Georgia: Bull. Ga. Geol. Survey No. 34, by H. K. Shearer, 1918, 192 pp.
• "Slate in Georgia," by T. P. Maynard, Geol. Survey Georgia Bull. 23, 1910, pp. 183-186.
• "Slates of the Rockmart Formation in Georgia," by C. W. Hayes, Geologic Atlas, United States, Folio 78, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1902.
• Special Granite Designs in the Famous Pride of Elberton Blue Granite, Design Book No. 16 & Price List for Special Granite Designs, No. 16-H (pdf), 1920’s.  (Monument catalog and price list for Elberton Blue Granite monuments from Georgia)

Special Granite Designs in the Famous Pride of Elberton Granite, Design Book No. 16 (front cover)	One of the monuments in the Special Granite Designs in the Famous Pride of Elberton Granite, Design Book No. 16 monument catalog	Price List for Special Granite Designs, No. 16-H (front cover)

• Sterling Granite Company Monumental Catalog Book 12, Elberton, Georgia, No date of publication printed in booklet, possibly late 1930s.
• “The (Georgia) Stone Industry,” (PDF) excerpt from Geology of The Stone Mountain-Lithonia District, Georgia, by Leo Anthony Herrmann, Georgia State Division of Conservation, Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, Atlanta: 1954, pp. 80-122. (Used with permission.)
• Stone Mountain Granite Corporation – Producers and Manufacturers Stone Mountain Light Gray Granite For Building Work – Dorian Gray For Mausoleums and Monuments & Stone Mountain Granite Corporation Granite Price List, circa 1914  (Office, quarries and finishing plant located at Stone Mountain, Georgia; branch offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Front cover of the Stone Mountain Granite Corporation booklet (ca. 1914)	Stone Mountain Granite Corp. power plant, cutting sheds, blacksmith shops, & crushing plant (ca. 1914)	Interior of Cutting Plant No. 1 (ca. 1914)

• Stratigraphy, Structure, and Metamorphism East of the Murphy Syncline: Georgia-North Carolina, GB-17, by R. D. Dallmeyer, P. S. Courtney, and R. M. Wooten, for Georgia Geological Society, 1978, 74 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Subsurface Basement Rocks of Georgia, Bulletin 76, Charles Milton and V. J. Hurst, 1965, 56 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• The Technology of Marble Quarrying, U. S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin 106, by Oliver Bowles, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1916.
• “Tributes in Stone and Lapidary Lapses: Commemorating Black People in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America,” by Angelika Krüger-Kahloula, Markers VI: pp. 32-100, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, USA)
• Twelfth Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals (1976), IC-49, 1978, 78 pp. (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia (1920s)
  • For stone samples, business correspondence form, et al. on this company, go to the “Universal Monument Company – Manufacturers of High Grade Monuments” section of our web site.
  • Monuments of Enduring Beauty (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta Georgia, 1920s.

    Monuments of Enduring Beauty, Universal Monument Co., 1920s (front cover)	“Here, in this plant, are created our memorials of enduring beauty, ” 1920s (frontispiece)

  • Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920’s.  (Note, this is a very large document.)

Front cover of Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, 1920s	Title Page	Design 9010

• • Price List of Marble and Granite Monuments in Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920s. (Price list for Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, above.)

    Front cover of Price List of Marble & Granite Monuments for the Universal Monument Co. Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, 1920s

• Urban Geology Field Trip, Atlanta, Georgia, MP-6, W. H. McLemore, 1980, in cooperation with U. S. Geological Survey and American Planning Association, 15 pp. (out of print) (From Circular 1, Publications of the Georgia Geologic Survey, 2000, Department of Natural Resources.)
• “A Walk Through History: A Look at Georgia ’s Architectural Heritage,” by Drury Warren, in Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Spring, 1985, pp. 34.
• "Weather Pits in Granite of the Southern Piedmont," by L. L. Smith, Jour. Geomorph. vol. 4, 1941. pp. 117-127.
• "Weathering of Granitic Rocks of Georgia," by T. L. Watson, Bulletin Geol. Soc. America, Vol. 12, 1901, pp. 93-108.
• Why Georgia Marble is Better: The Question Of Material, The Georgia Marble Co., Tate Georgia, circa 1925.
• Yesterday, Today, and Forever: The Story of Georgia Marble, (PDF) Georgia Marble Company, 31 pp. (Used with permission of the Georgia Marble Company.)

Stone Carvers, Stone Cutters, etc.

• Don Dougan, Sculptor, whose studio is located north of Atlanta, Georgia. Don Dougan creates his pieces for stone quarried in many different locations including: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Italy, Vermont, Spain, Belgium, France, etc. If you would like to see more of his more recent pieces, click on the bar near the bottom of the page to view works from such stone as Indiana limestone; marble from Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas; and several types of stone from Italy.
• “The Life of a Quarry Worker,” presented by Stone Mountain Park. (This link is no longer available, although you can read the document on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
  <http://www.stonemountainpark.org/text/quarry%20postactivity.pdf>

  This post trip activity document includes the following sections: Background information on Georgia granites and granite-gneisses, Historical Overview (Quarrying on Stone Mountain, the Stone Mountain granite Company, the Stone Mountain Granite Corporation, wages for quarrymen, the stone cutters’ union), Quarrying Methods, Sources, & Crystals, Minerals, and Rocks.

• Mary R. Reynolds Woodall (deceased), Elberton, Georgia, Stone Carver and past co-owner of J & B Granite Company in Elberton, Georgia. The following is an excerpt from Mary Woodall’s obituary. (The name of the publication and date are not known.)

  “Mrs. Mary Ruth Reynolds Woodall, 51, 1662 Middle Road, Elberton, died Friday, February 4, 2000, after several weeks of declining health. A native of Elbert County, she was a daughter of the late J.C. and Geneva Fowler Reynolds. She was the first woman stone cutter in Elberton and was previous co-owner of J&B Granite Company.”