List of Photographic Tours of
Stone Quarries, Etc.

California

• Bell Marble Quarry Photographic Tour, in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, located in the Marble Quarry RV Park

  Road to the Bell Marble Quarry	The main face of the Bell Marble Quarry	Blocks of marble near the face of the Bell Marble Quarry

• Benicia Arsenal – Photographic Tour of the Benicia Historical Museum Buildings and Grounds, Benicia, Solano County, California – included are the Camel Barns, the Spenger Memorial Garden, the Benicia Arsenal Powder Magazine #10, and the Silas Casey Industrial (Tool) Exhibit in Camel Barn building #7, in Benicia, Solano County, California.

  One of the camel barns at the Benicia Historical Museum at the historic Benicia Arsenal	Close-up photo of sandstone wall of one of the camel barns. Stone for the Benicial Arsenal buildings was quarried on the property	Spenger Memorial Garden next to one of the Camel Barns

• “History of Quarrying in California from the California Indians up to Present Time”

  Indian quarry site on Santa Catalina Island (from “A California Verde Antique Quarry,” Scientific American, Dec. 16, 1899)	San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura, Ventura County, California (January 2011)	Quarry of the California Granite Company, situated 4 miles east of Porterville (circa 1915)

• Columbia Marble Quarry – Photographic Tour of One of the Historic Columbia Marble Quarries in the California Gold Rush Country, Tuolumne County, California.

  	One of the historic Columbia Marble Quarries (1978)

• Colusa County Sandstone Quarries including the Brownstone Quarry – Photographic Tour of One of the Historic Colusa County Sandstone Quarries in California.

  The Brownstone Quarry, previously known as the Colusa Stone Co. Quarry	The Brownstone Quarry, previously known as the Colusa Stone Co. Quarry	The inactive McGilvray Stone Co. Sandstone Quarry

  • 2006 Brownstone Quarry Photographic Tour
  • 2006 McGilvray Quarry Photographic Tour
• Davenport, Santa Cruz County – Santa Cruz Portland Cement Plant, Davenport, Santa Cruz County, California, Photographic Tour (operated by Cemex until early 2010)  The photographs below and included in the photographic tour of the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Plant were taken and contributed by Anthony Meadow, who is a member of the Samuel Knight Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology – Peggy B. Perazzo
• Gold Rush Country (southern mines) – Building Materials of the southern California Gold Country: A Selective Photographic Tour from Mariposa, in Mariposa County, to Auburn, in Placer County, based on material and photographs in the Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49, Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, 1948. (Photographs taken in 1998)

  Rhyolite tuff quarry 1 mile east of Altaville Ruins of Volcano Amphitheatre (Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49, Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, 1948. Used with permission.)	Altaville RhyoliteTuff Quarry at a distance (1998 photo by Peggy B. Perazzo)	Ruins of Volcano Amphitheatre (Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49, Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, 1948. Used with permission.)

• Griffith Granite Quarry in Penryn, Placer County, California – Photographic Tour

  View of part of G. Griffith’s Penryn Granite Quarry	A different part of the Penryn Granite Quarry, today a park	G. Griffith Penryn Granite Quarry Museum built with Penryn granite

• Griffith Granite Quarry and Museum Photographic Tour, October 2010

  Looking into what's left of the granite quarry	Piles of Penryn Granite	Griffith Penryn granite quarry wall in the distance from the trail