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

• Taylor Ridge, Chattooga County, Georgia – the Peters Property – Rockwood Shales (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. 252.

  Plate XX. A. Red iron ore on the Rockwood shales, Peters Property, Taylor Ridge, Chattooga County, Georgia.

• Tivola (south of), Houston County, Georgia – Old Limestone Quarry on G.S. & F. Right-of-way (Limestone) (from A Report on the Limestones and Marls of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Bulletin 21, 1910, by J. E. Brantly, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, GA: The Blosser Co., 1916, pp. 48)

  Plate III. B. Old limestone quarry on G.S. & F. right-of-way, south of Tivola, Houston County.

• Wilkes County, Georgia – the Star Granite Co. Granite Quarry (Granite).

  In 1995 this company was operating a granite quarry in Wilkes County. At that time the company headquarters was in Elberton, Georgia. (From United States Geological Survey, “Mineral Industries Surveys – Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995,” prepared in January 1997.)

• White (near), Bartow County, Georgia – the American Potash Company Slate Mine (Slate), from Report on The Slate Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin No. 34, by H. K. Shearer, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1918, pp. 160.

  Plate XI. B. Slate mine of the American Potash Company, near White, Bartow County, September, 1918.

• White (north of), Bartow County, Georgia – Green Slate Exposure (Slate), from Report on The Slate Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin No. 34, by H. K. Shearer, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1918.

  Plate VIII. B. Exposure of green slate in the Louisville & Nashville Railroad cut near the Cartersville Poor Farm, one mile north of White, Bartow County. (pp. 120)

  Plate XI. A. Looking east from the Tennessee Road near the Cartersville Poor Farm, Bartow County, showing Pinelog Mountain with foothills formed by the Cartersville Formation. (pp. 160)

• Whitfield County, Georgia – the American Black Marble Company Marble Quarry (Marble), 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. 88.

  Plate V. A view showing outcrop of black marble at the quarry of the American Black Marble Company, Whitfield County, Georgia.

• Whitestone, Georgia – the Detroit Marble Company – Murphy Marble (Marble), 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. 124.

  Plate IX. A. Murphy Marble, Detroit Marble Company, Whitestone, Georgia.

• Whitestone (near), Gilmer County, Georgia – Marble Bluff near Whitestone (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. 64.

  Plate III. Marble bluff, near Whitestone, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Gilmer County, Georgia.

• Whitestone, Georgia – the Whitestone Marble Company Mill (Marble), 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. 122.

  Plate VIII. B. Mill of the Whitestone Marble Company, Whitestone, Pickens County, Georgia. Quarry located immediately east of the mill.

   

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