This is a list of notable quarries and areas of quarrying in the United States. A number of these are historic quarries listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), ranging from relatively ancient archeological sites to places having pre-World War II activity. This includes major areas of continuing, modern quarrying.
According to Marble.com, in 2016 there were 276 quarries producing natural stone in 34 states, and states producing the most granite were Texas, Massachusetts, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia.[1] The term "quarry" refers also to sites producing aggregate, molding sand, or other resources besides cut stone.
There were numerous more quarries in the U.S. during the 1800s and 1900s than are operational now. In Oregon, a state with much less activity than Vermont and other bigger quarrying states, there were more than 250 quarries operational at one time or another. In 1906 the state mineralogist of California reported on 52 granite quarrying areas in 17 counties.[2]
Many quarries were opened temporarily to provide stone for one or a few local or regional construction projects, but could not compete later when railroads allowed for economical transportation of heavy building materials to the area. Quarrying spurred the construction of railways and vice versa, from the 1826 construction of the Granite Railway in Massachusetts to the modern day.
^"About Marble and Granite Quarries in America". Marble.Com. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
^Peggie P. Perazzo; George Perazzo. ""California Granite Quarries - List and Location of Individual Quarries" in Stone Quarries and Beyond". Retrieved April 25, 2019.. Derived from "The Structural and Industrial Materials of California", Bulletin No. 38, by Lewis E. Auburn, State Mineralogist, San Francisco, California, 1906
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