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

• Des Moines, Iowa – the Dunreath Quarry Company (The following information is from the “Notes From Quarry and Shop” section in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XI, No. 6, November, 1895, Frank W. Hoyt, Publisher, New York, pp. 574.)

  "Incorporated -– The Dunreath Quarry Company, with a principal place of business at Des Moines, Iowa, and authorized capital of $100,000. The incorporators are George M. Dearth, G. H. Huttenlocher, Samuel Slack, and O. M. Robbins."

• Dewitt, Iowa – Behr Quarry, 2265 260th Avenue, Dewitt, Iowa, (563) 659-3489, an Aggregate Quarry of Wendling Quarries, Inc. (present-day company)
• Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa - Mines of Spain Recreation Area - About the Mines of Spain, presented by the Friends of the Mines of Spain.  Horseshoe Bluff Interpretive Area. There is a horseshoe-shaped quarry of dolomite rocks in this area.
• Dubuque County, Iowa – Heritage Trail.  This web site is presented by the Dubuque County Conservation Board, Swiss Valley Nature Center.
  • Heritage Trail – The information below is used with permission and was extracted from A Guidebook to Mining In America,  Volume 2:  East (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and farther East), by John R. Park, Stonerose Publishing Co., Miami, Florida, April, 2000, available at Stonerose Publishing Company.

    “The trail, now a hiking-biking path, follows a former railroad right of way.  Various points of interest along the way include former dimension stone quarries in the Galena Limestone and the Maquoketa Dolomite, and an underground iron (limonite) mine southwest of Durango which operated about 1896.  The iron mine included an adit which extended for 1200'.  However, it is unclear if any of these sites are viewable from the trail, and apparently, there are few, if any remains.”

• Dudley, Wapello County, Iowa - Andrew Lames Quarry, Dudley, Wapello County, Iowa.

  Plate LVIII  (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Eagle Point, Dubuque County, Iowa - Quarry and plant of Eagle Point Lime Co., Eagle Point, Dubuque County, Iowa. 

  Plate XXXIII (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Earlham, Madison County, Iowa - Robertson Quarry, Earlham, Madison County, Iowa, showing the principal limestone beds with their characteristic clay partings. 

  Plate LIX  (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Eddyville, Iowa - John Lafferty Quarry, Eddyville. Fig. 36  (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

  Fig. 36  (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Elma, Iowa - Quarry northeast of Elma showing flaggy character of beds.

  Plate XLIX  (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Fairfax, Iowa – 4 County Quarry, 1473 Linn-Johnson Road NW, Fairfax, Iowa 52228, (319) 846-2148, an Aggregate Quarry of Wendling Quarries, Inc. (present-day company) (This link is no longer available, although you can view the map on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
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• Fairview Township, Jasper County, Iowa - Herwehe Quarry in Red Rock Sandstone.  Northwest quarter of section 8, Fairview township, Jasper county, cross-bedding is conspicuous throughout the section.

  Fig. 39  (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Farley, Iowa Quarry at Farley, IA

  (postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Floyd County, Iowa - Floyd quarry section. 

  Plate XLVII (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Fort Atkinson, Iowa - Quarry in the Fort Atkinson limestone, at the town of Fort Atkinson, a few rods west of the old fort.

  Fig. 16 (From Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. XVII, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Iowa State Geologist, 1906.)

• Garrison, Iowa – Garrison Quarry, 1851 61st Street, Garrison, Iowa 52229, (319) 477-5720, an Aggregate Quarry of Wendling Quarries, Inc. (present-day company) (This link is no longer available, although you can view the map on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
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• Greensburg (near), Iowa – Harris City Stone Quarry  Near Greensburg - Historical tour of Southern Decatur County, presented by the Greensburg Chamber of Commerce. (The link from which the following information was obtained is no longer available.)
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  The tour begins in Greensburg.  The Harris City Stone quarry is located about five miles south of Greensburg.  Once 300 men were employed by the stone quarry.  The quarry was known for its "blue-lime-stone rock," which was used in the construction of the Indiana State house in Indianapolis, the U.S. Customs Building in Cincinnati and the Proctor & Gamble soap factory near Cincinnati.  In 1897 the quarry filed for bankruptcy and was sold in 1989.  "As you leave Harris City, just outside of town..notice the stone fence on the right that was also made of stone from the old quarry."

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