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

• Cartersville (near), Bartow County, Georgia – the Ladd Lime Company Quarry (Dolomite), from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912.

  Plate XVII. B. Knox dolomite. A section of quarry, Ladd Lime Company, near Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia (pp. 208)

  Plate XXI. B. Knox dolomite, Ladd Lime Company’s Quarry, showing heavy-bedded and massive dolomite, Bartow County, Georgia (pp. 256)

  Plate XXII. A. Ladd Lime Company, located about 2 miles southwest of Cartersville, Bartow County, showing Ladds Mountain, Lime Kilns, and crushed stone bins (pp. 272)

• Cartersville (east of), Georgia – Weisner Quartzite Exposure east of Cartersville (Limestone) (circa 1912), from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 84.

  Plate IV. An exposure of Weisner quartzite along the Western & Atlantic Railroad, at the Iron Bridge over the Etowah River, 1 mile east of Cartersville, Georgia, showing the crushing and folding of the quartzite.

• Catoosa County, Georgia – the Hale Quarry (Dolomite), from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 252.

  Plate XX. B. Close view of Hale Quarry, showing massive and heavy-bedded Knox dolomite, Catoosa County, Georgia.

• Cement, Georgia – the Howard Hydraulic Cement Company Lime Kilns & Cement Mill (Lime), from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 272.

  Plate XXII. B. Lime kilns and cement mill, Howard Hydraulic Cement Company, Cement, Georgia.

• Centerville (east of), Gwinnett County, Georgia – the Campbell Property Granite Ledge (Granite)  (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. 96.  Used with permission.  You can read the entire entry for this quarry in the document/chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia).)”

  “Campbell Property – A ledge has been raised but no quarrying has been done on a several acre pavement of Stone Mountain granite located approximately three quarters of a mile east of Centerville.  The property is owned by Mr. C. M. Campbell.

“The rock is good quality biotite-bearing muscovite granite similar to that at Stone Mountain except that it contains a slightly greater proportion of microcline than oligoclase…In spite of its good quality the prospects for successful quarrying are unfavorable because of its distance from paved highways and its small areal extent.”

• Chickamauga Station, Walker County, Georgia – Trouth and Company’s Quarry (Limestone), from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 226.

Plate XVIII. A. Trough and Company’s Quarry, Chickamauga limestone, near Chickamauga Station, showing the variable thickness of the bedding, Walker County, Georgia.

• Coweta Station, Coweta County, Georgia – the McCollum Place (Porphyritic Granite), from A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia, Bulletin No. 9-A, by Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1902.

  Plate IV. Fig. 2. Photo-micrograph of porphyritic granite, from the McCollum Place, near Coweta Station, Coweta County, Georgia. Crossed Nicols x 74. (pp. 48)

  Plate VI. Fig. 1. Photo-micrograph of a phenocryst of microcline, showing inclusions of quartz and of other feldspar species. (pp. 64)

• Crystal Springs (north of) Chattooga County, Georgia – the Robinson Property – Limestone & Shale Exposure (Limestone & Shales), from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 194.

  Plate XVI. A. Bangor limestone, about 5 miles north of Crystal Springs, on the Robinson Property, Chattooga County, Georgia.

   

  Plate XVI. B. Shales at the top of the Floyd Formation, about 5 miles north of Crystal Springs on the Robinson Property, Chattooga County, Georgia.

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