Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
St. Louis – Byrnes thru Cheltenham

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Thomas Byrnes Limestone Quarry located on Magazine Street (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Byrnes, Thomas (J, 10): - Mr. Byrnes has a small quarry which is situated on Magazine street, just east of Mr. Cavanaugh’s quarry. The product is small and consists mostly of building stone.”

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the Hugh Carlin Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The Hugh Carlin Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone/Limestone, color: drab; quarry opened in 1864.

• St. Louis, Missouri - M. & Wh. L. Carthage Company Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis, Missouri - the Carthage Stone Company’s Yard at Gratiot & Theresa Avenues, St. Louis, Missouri (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “The quarry of the Carthage Stone company is located west of the west quarry of the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., in the S. E. ¼ of the N. E. ¼ of sec. 32, T. 28, R. 31 W. It was opened in 1892 and has operated continuously since that time....”

  “This quarry is equipped with a modern mill. The stone is quarried, dressed and cut with modern machinery, including channelers, hoists, derrick, gang-saw, engine and boilers. The company owns an electric plant and during the past nine years the quarry has operated day and night. A portion of the stone is shipped in the rough to St. Louis where the company has a yard, at Gratiot and Theresa avenues, for Cutting and dressing.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Casper Stalle Quarry and Construction Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, March 1893, Vol. VI., No. IV, pp. 372)

  Notes From the Quarry: “Casper, William F., and Conrad J. Stalle have incorporated the Casper Stalle Quarry and construction Company at East St. Louis. Capital $25,000.”

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the Daniel Cavenaugh Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The Daniel Cavenaugh Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone/Dolomite, color: drab; quarry opened in 1866.

  • St. Louis City, Missouri - T. E. Cavanaugh Limestone Quarry located on the southeast corner of Magazine Street & Garrison Avenue (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

    Location and product.

    “Cavanaugh, T. E. (J, 10); - Mr. Cavanaugh has a quarry which is situated on the south-east corner of Magazine street and Garrison avenue. It was opened about twenty-three years ago (circa 1867). The product consists of building stone, paving stone and macadam. One three-inch Ingersoll drill is used. The stone is hauled to the surface in wagons, up an inclined road.

    Section.

    “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

    1. Loess - 10-14 feet.
    2. Limestone, gray, even textured, good dimension stone, in four layers, from twenty to thirty inches thick - 8 feet, 6 inches.
    3. Limestone, weathers into layers about ten inches in thickness - 5 feet.
    4. Limestone, gray, soft, weathers into a thirty inch top and an eighteen inch bottom layer - 4 feet.
    5. Limestone, light gray, compact, divides into places into two layers. The upper one is six and a half feet thick, and has numerous concretions of chert arranged along a bedding plane. The lower one is three and a half feet thick, and is marked with stylolites - 10 feet.
    6. Limestone, very dark gray, fine grained, but not uniformly so - 1 foot.
    7. Limestone, light gray, compact in two layers - 10 inches.
    8. Limestone, dark gray, compact, soft - 1 foot, 6 inches.
    9. Limestone, light gray, soft, in four layers - 8 feet, 6 inches.

    Total thickness of rock - 39 feet, 4 inches.”

  • St. Louis, Missouri - T. E. Cavanaugh’s Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
    • St. Louis, Missouri - the Cavanaugh Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

      “This quarry, which is owned and operated by T. Cavanaugh, is located southwest of Marcus avenue and Natural Bridge road. It is of the sunken type and is 150 feet long, 100 feet wide and 60 feet deep. Practically the same beds occur here as at the Hill-O’Mera quarry. Those which are being quarried at the bottom are the same as those which are channeled by the Hill-O’Mera company. The stone is a finely crystalline, gray limestone of excellent quality. It breaks well and makes a first class rubble.

      “The quarry is equipped with a crushing plant, steam hoist, derrick ands team drills. An average of about twelve men are worked. The product is chiefly rubble and crushed stone.”

• St. Louise, Missouri - the Central Monument Co. (Advertisement) (from Monumental News Magazine, January 1939, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 24. The advertisement below was also published in the following issues of Monumental News Magazine: September 1927, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 213; December 1937, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 440; March 1938, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 114; April 1938, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 164; May 1938, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 206 ; June 1938, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 252; August 1938, Vol. 50, No. 8, pp. 322; September/October 1938, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 362; December 1938, Vol. 50, No. 12, pp. 516; February 1939, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 80; March 1939, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 134; April 1939, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 188; May 1939, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 234; June 1939, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 284; July 1939, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 320; August 1939, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 378; September 1939, Vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 426; November 1939, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 510; and December 1939, Vol. 51, No. 12, pp. 569.)

  

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• St. Louis, Missouri - the Cheltenham Quarry Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)

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