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

• Stone Mountain, Georgia – 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. (You can view the entire booklet by clicking on the link above. A few of the photographs from this booklet are presented below.)

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)	“General view of the front part of the quarries, there being two more openings with derricks beyond the turn of the Mountain.”
“View of immense ledge in quarry, from which Monoliths of any size can be obtained.”	Dimension Stone - Stone Mountain, Georgia, Granite	Interior of Cutting Plant No. 1 (ca. 1914)
Interior of Cutting Plant No. 2 of the Stone Mountain Granite Corp. (ca. 1914)	Paving Blocks of Stone Mountain Granite	One of the two main piers of the Delaware River Bridge between Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey (ca. 1916)
Hibernia Bank Building, Savannah, Georgia (Stone Mountain Granite)	Residence, Atlanta, Georgia (broken range ashlar with with hammered trimmings - Stone Mountain Granite)	Carbajal Mausoleum, New Orleans, Louisiana (Stone Mountain granite)
Penn Mausoleum, New Orleans, Louisiana	Page from the Stone Mountain Granite Corp. price list (ca. 1914)	Photographs of Stone Mountain Granite (ca. 1914)

• Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia – the Stone Mountain (Granite) (from A Preliminary Report on the Mineral Resources of Georgia, Bulletin No. 23, by S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta: 1910, pp. 80.

  Plate. VII. Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, 16 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. (Note, appears to be the same photo as published in Granites of the Southeastern Atlantic States, published in 1910, above.)

• Stone Mountain, Georgia - Stone Quarry (postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

  Stone Quarry, Stone Mountain, Georgia

• Stone Mountain, Georgia – the Stone Mountain Granite Corporation  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, January 1921, pp. 10)

  Stone Mountain Granite Corporation, Stone Mountain, Ga.

  Dorian Gray Granite is fine grained, uniform and non-absorptive; it is especially adaped for fine hammered work and artistic and effective carving.  Its easy working quality appeals especially to the dimension stock buyer, yet it meets the highest government granite tests.

Stone Mountain Granite Corporation, Stone Mountain, Georgia – Advertisement from “The Monumental News,” January 1921, pp. 10.  (photo images in advertisement:  “Famous Stone Mountain, 686 ft. high, 7 miles in circumference.”  “View of cutting sheds and power plant.”  & “View of immense ledge in quarry, from which monoliths of any size can be obtained.”)

• Stone Mountain (southeast of) DeKalb County, Georgia – the Block Quarry  (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. 91.  Used with permission.  You can read this chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia),” which includes information on this quarry, in the PDF document.)

  “Block Quarry – Two rather small quarries in Stone Mountain granite, located about three and a half miles southeast of the village of Stone Mountain, are owned by Mr. bates Block of Atlanta.  The larger of the two quarries is only a few hundred feet east of the Wade residence.  The smaller one is in a flat-rock exposure about five acres in area, several hundred yards south of the large quarry near the headwaters of Crooked Creek.

  “The rock is gray-white granite remarkably free from blemishes or inclusions.  It contains about twice as much muscovite as brownish biotite.  Structures are not pronounced in the rock, but a faint flowage, foliation trends N5°W and dips 40°E.  A strong jet of joints strikes N35°W and dips vertically.”

• Stone Mountain (east of) DeKalb County, Georgia – the Britt Quarry (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. 91-92.  Used with permission.  You can read this chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia),” which includes information on this quarry, in the PDF document.)

  “Britt Quarry – Mr. Mark Britt of Stone Mountain owns a large quarry two hundred and fifty feet square and up to forty feet deep, located one and one-half miles east of Stone Mountain.  It was formerly owned and worked by G. Weiblen and Sons from 1935 to 1946.  It was known as the Nash and McCurdy quarry in the Watson Report (1902).  At present the opening is filled with water.

  “The rock is typical muscovite-rich granite with a small amount of brown biotite and small pink garnets.  On the northwest side of the quarry there are numerous muscovite-rich bands and pegmatites within the granite.  A large pegmatite at the north end of the pond has an irregular shape with many projecting tongues or fingers.  The rock is highly fractured here and many of the horizontal joints contain yellow uranophane.

  “A pronounced flowage foliation strikes about N60°W and dips either north or south on the northwest side of the quarry, and strikes about N50°W and dips 35°NE on the east side of the quarry.  Locally the foliation is erratic.  Joints are not common but a small fault trending N40°W limits the north end of the quarry.

  “The rock is of good quality for general purposes except for the numerous pegmatite and highly micaceous areas.  Further work would be hampered, however, by the large amount of water in the opening.”

• Stone Mountain (north of), DeKalb County, Georgia – the Flat Rock Quarries (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. 93-94.  Used with permission.  You can read this chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia),” which includes information on this quarry, in the PDF document.)

  “Flat Rock Quarry – The Flat Rock Quarry is owned by Mr. W. H. Venable of Stone Mountain.  It is located approximately one-half mile north of the carving on Stone Mountain.

  “There are two quarries on the property, a large one on the north (Fig. 40), and a smaller one on the south.  The rock in both openings is a medium-grained muscovite granite with small pink garnets scattered throughout.  A faint flowage foliation trends approximately N45°W and varies in dip from 10° to 40° NE.  Several steeply dipping faults on the northwest side of the opening are coated with light green damourite.

  “In the vicinity of the faults tourmaline clusters are abundant, and on the southwest side of the quarry numerous garnet-bearing muscovite inclusions are common.  A yellow-green coating of uranophane is found on many of the horizontal sheeting planes.

  “The quarry and a small crushing plant now in use were operated during the period from 1935 to 1940 by the Works Progress Administration for crushed stone.  It is now operated by Mr. Venable for rubble.”

• Stone Mountain, Georgia – the Hanye Quarry (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, pp. 96.

  Plate VIII. Fig. 2. The Hayne Quarry, on the northwest side of the mountain, Stone Mountain, Georgia.

• Stone Mountain (east of), DeKalb County, Georgia – the Kellogg Quarry (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. 94.  Used with permission.  You can read this chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia),” which includes information on this quarry, in the PDF document.)

  “Kellogg Quarry – A large quarry on the east side of Stone Mountain is leased by Arthur Kellogg form the Venable Brothers estate and operated by Otis King.  The quarry has been in continuous operation since 1947.  It was previously operated by the Stone MOuntain granite Corporation (Weiblen and Sons) from 1916 to 1934, and by the Works Progress Administration from 1935 to 1940.

  “In 1950 the quarry production was 1200 tons of stone per week, divided into 700 tons of rough curb stone and 500 tons of rubble.  Due to the high cost of shipping, the stone is used almost exclusively in the greater Atlantic area….”

• Stone Mountain (southeast of) DeKalb County, Georgia – the Quarry Near Crooked Creek (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. 91.  Used with permission.  You can read this chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia),” which includes information on this quarry, in the PDF document.)

  “Block Quarry – Two rather small quarries in Stone Mountain granite, located about three and a half miles southeast of the village of Stone Mountain, are owned by Mr. bates Block of Atlanta.  The larger of the two quarries is only a few hundred feet east of the Wade residence.  The smaller one is in a flat-rock exposure about five acres in area, several hundred yards south of the large quarry near the headwaters of Crooked Creek.

  “The rock is gray-white granite remarkably free from blemishes or inclusions.  It contains about twice as much muscovite as brownish biotite.  Structures are not pronounced in the rock, but a faint flowage, foliation trends N5°W and dips 40°E.  A strong jet of joints strikes N35°W and dips vertically.”

• Stone Mountain Village, DeKalb County, Georgia – the Sexton Quarry (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. 994.  Used with permission.  You can read the PDF document/chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia).)”

  “Sexton Quarry – The stone of the W. E. Sexton quarry, located three miles southeast of Stone Mountain village, is quite variable in character.  The rock is muscovite-rich granite with many micaceous inclusions, tourmaline clusters and small irregular stringers of pegmatite.

  “The rock is not of acceptable grade for any purpose other than crushed stone.  The owner worked it for this purpose for a short time but has since discontinued the operation.”

• Stone Mountain, Georgia – Southeast Granite Company – Stone Mountain Granite Memorial/Monumental Stones Catalog (pdf) (1920s)

Stone Mountain, Georgia	Photo of the Central Group of the Stone Mountain Memorial “to the heroes of the South’s Lost Cause” & aerial view of the finishing plants and quarries at Stone Mountain	Examples of memorials constructed from Stone Mountain Granite

Interior of one of their stone-working shops	Stone Mountain Memorials

• Stone Mountain, Georgia – Stone Mountain Quarry located on the South Side of the Mountain (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, pp. 96.

  Plate VIII. Fig. 1. A Quarry on the South Stone of (Stone) Mountain, Georgia.

• Stone Mountain, Georgia – Stone Mountain Granite Corp. Stone Mountain, Ga. Quarries (colorized postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

  Quarries of Stone Mountain Granite Corp., Stone Mountain, Georgia

• 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, 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 - 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://www.gpc.edu/~pgore/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.
  • Stone Mountain Park Attractions, 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 Natural History, presented on the About North Georgia web site.
• Stone Mountain (south side of), DeKalb County, Georgia – the Venable Estate Quarries (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. 95.  Used with permission.  You can read the entire entry for this quarry in the PDF document/chapter on “The Stone Industry (of Georgia).)” (PDF)

  “Venable Estate Quarries – Two large quarries on the south side of Stone Mountain and several smaller quarries on the west and northwest sides of the mountain were formerly owned and operated by the Venable brothers of Stone Mountain.  They are now the property of their successor, the Venable Estate.

  “The quarries were operated on a large scale about 1900, but have since been closed and the equipment moved.  The track of a spur of the Georgia Railroad has also been removed, and the only remainder of the operations are the stone walls of the finishing buildings in which were produced twenty thousand car loads of combined paving blocks, curb stones, building blocks and monumental stone annually (Watson, 1902, p. 113).

  “The rock is a light-gray biotite-bearing muscovite granite containing occasional pink garnets…Figure 32 is a map of one of the quarries on the northwest side of the mountain.”

• Summerville (south of), Chattooga County, Georgia – Chert Quarry (Chert) (from Geology and Mineral Resources of the Paleozoic Area in Northwest Georgia, Bulletin No. 54, by Charles Butts, Geologist, U.S.G.S. (retired) and Benjamin Gildersleeve, Geologist, TVA, Georgia State Division of Conservation, Published in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority, Atlanta, 1948, pp. 153)

  Fig. 14. Chert quarry (road surfacing material) U.S. Hy. 27, two miles south of Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.

• Summerville (near), Chattooga County, Georgia – Residual Chert & Clay from Knox Dolomite (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. 92.

  Plate VI. Residual chert and clay resulting from the weathering of the Knox Dolomite, in a cut on the Central of Georgia Railway, near Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.

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