List of Photographic Tours of
Stone Quarries, Etc.

California

• Huntington Botanical Garden Photo Tour – Stones Used in the Garden & Buildings, in San Marino near Pasadena, California

  Desert Garden in the Huntington Botanical Gardens	View of one of the bridges in the Japanese Garden located in the Huntington Botanical Gardens	View of the tea house in the Japanese Garden

• Indian Diggings Marble Quarry, El Dorado County, California – Photographic Tour of the Area

  Dirt lumber road leading to the old Indian Diggings marble quarry area	“Indian Diggings limestone deposit” (“Limestone in California,” in California Journal of Mines and Geology, July 1947, pp. 210)	Cemetery monument in the Old Sacrameto Cemetery constructed from Indian Diggings marble

• Inyo Dolomite Quarries near Lone Pine, Inyo County, California – Photographic Tour of the Area

  View of main, large F.W. Aggregates dolomite quarry and smaller openings (quarries historically known as Inyo Marble Company marble quarries)	View of smaller quarries that produce dolomite in colors other than white, today owned and operated by F.W. Aggregates	F.W. Aggregates’ dolomite quarry as seen from the ghost town of Dolomite

• Laws (near), Inyo County, California – Stone Buildings & Other Stone Uses at the Laws Railroad Museum & Historic Site – Photo Tour of the Buildings and Railroad Yard at the Laws Museum.  Stone, probably locally quarried, was used in the construction of the Blacksmith Shop at the Laws Railroad Museum & Historic Site in addition to other uses such as the stone doorstep in front of the Miner’s Cabin.  You will find information about the museum grounds on the Laws Railroad Museum & Historic Site web site and the Laws Railroad Museum section of Wikipedia.

  Laws Station Memorial	Blacksmith Shop – Walls of Stone	Closeup of a portion of one of the walls of the Blacksmith Shop

• McGilvray Granite Quarry, Knowles, Madera County, California – Photographic Tour of Quarry

  Center of the old McGilvray granite quarry with a pile of granite blocks in the water in Knowles	Right side of the old McGilvray granite quarry	Granite building located near the old McGilvray granite quarry/works area

• McGilvray-Raymond Corporation Granite Quarry, Lakeside, San Diego County, California – Photographic Tour of Quarry

  Walking towards the old McGilvray-Raymond Corp. granite quarry located at Lakeside, San Diego County		Looking at the old McGilvray-Raymond Corp. granite quarry from across the valley

• Pala, San Diego County, California – the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, today known as “Mission San Antonio de Pala” or “Pala Mission” Uses of Local Stone (the mission, bell tower, gardens, and cemetery.) Peggy Perazzo)

  Unique free-standing Bell Tower with stone-faced base at the Pala Mission	Stone-edged walkway, and what appears to be a stone planter	Cemetery monument in the Pala Mission Cemetery of both light and dark granite

• Southern Gold Rush Country Quarries & Stone Building Materials Photographic Tour of California Building Materials in the Southern Portion of California’s Gold Rush Country – This is a photographic tour of selected buildings and structures in the Gold Rush Country of California starting at Mariposa in Mariposa County northward to Auburn in Placer County.

  Columbia Marble Quarry (postcard photograph)	Altaville rhyolite tuff quarry, Altaville, Calaveras County	Limestone Quarry located north of Cool, El Dorado County