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

• Apling, Columbia County Area, Georgia – Photo-micrograph of Porphyritic Granite (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, pp. 240.

  Plate XXIV. Fig. 1. Photo-micrograph of porphyritic granite, from the Columbia County area, near Appling, Georgia. Crossed Nicols x 74.

  Plate XXIV. Fig. 2. Photo-micrograph of a microcline phenocryst of the granite of Fig. 1, showing inclusions of some of the ground-mass minerals. Crossed Nicols x 74.

• Appalachian Mountain Areas of Georgia - Map of the Piedmont Plateau & Appalachian Mountain Areas of Georgia – Distribution of Marbles and Limestones (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. 81.

  Fig. 3. Map showing the areal distribution of marbles and limestones in the Piedmont Plateau and Appalachian Mountain areas of Georgia (circa 1912)

• Appalachian Valley – Table of Geological Formations of the Appalachian Valley and Cumberland Plateau Areas of Georgia, from Report on The Slate Deposits of Georgia, Bulletin No. 34, by H. K. Shearer, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1918, pp. 46.

  Table of Geological Formation of the Appalachian Valley and Cumberland Plateau Area of Georgia (circa 1918)

• Aragon (northeast of), Polk County, Georgia – Newala Limestone with overlying Rockmart Shale (Limestone/Shale) (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. 21)

  Fig. 3. Newala limestone with overlying Rockmart shale, one mile northeast of Aragon, Polk County.

• Aragon, Polk County, Georgia – the Southern Lime Manufacturing Company 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. 152.

  Plate IXV. B. Chickamauga limestone, quarry of the Southern Lime Manufacturing Company, Aragon, Polk County, Georgia.

• Aragon Springs, Polk County, Georgia – the Bald Mountain Portland Cement Company 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. 146.

  Plate XIII. B. Chickamauga limestone, quarry of the Bald Mountain Portland Cement Company, 1 ¾ miles north of Aragon Springs, Polk County, Georgia.

• Atlanta, Georgia - Atlantic Steel Co. – Saw Blades for Stone (The following information is from an advertisement in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, March, 1925, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 185.)

  Atlantic Steel Co.

  General Offices, Furnaces and Mills

  Atlanta, Ga.

  Saw Blades

  Accurately Rolled From Best Grade Special Analysis Steel

  Atlantic Steel Company’s Stone Saw Blades Work Right Because

  They are Made Right.

  Everyone Guaranteed

  Prompt Shipments

• Atlanta, Georgia - Vulcan Materials Company - Southeast Division (present-day company - region includes Georgia and South Carolina)
• Atlanta (near), Georgia – Granite Dikes, near Atlanta, Georgia (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. 274.

  Plate XXVII. Granite Dikes, near Atlanta, Georgia. Fig. 1. Fine-grained biotite granite dike cutting mica-schist, both the granite and the enclosing schist being deeply weathered.

  Plate XXVII. Granite Dikes, near Atlanta, Georgia. Fig. 2. Pegmatitic dikes cutting mica-schist, the enclosing schist being altered to a ferruginous residual clay, in which the schistosity of the fresh rock is partially preserved.

• Atlanta (near), Georgia – Gullied Surface in Residual Clay, 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. 304.

  Plate XXX. Gullied Surface in residual clay, derived from biotite granite, near Atlanta, Georgia.

• Atlanta (near), Georgia – Residual Clays derived from the decay of Gneiss, near Atlanta, Georgia, 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. 288.

  Plate XXIX. Residual clays derived from the decay of gneiss, near Atlanta, Georgia. Fig. 1. A thirty-foot section of the vari-colored clay

  Plate XXIX. Residual clays derived from the decay of gneiss, near Atlanta, Georgia. Fig. 2. A forty-foot section of clay, in which the original schistosity planes of the fresh rock are perfectly preserved.

• Atlanta, Georgia – Universal Monumental Company Monumental Works (1920s)
  • For stone samples, business forms, et al. on this company, go to the “Universal Monument Company – Manufacturers of High Grade Monuments” section of our web site.
  • Monuments of Enduring Beauty (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta Georgia, 1920s.

Monuments of Enduring Beauty, Universal Monument Co., 1920s (front cover)	“Here, in this plant, are created our memorials of enduring beauty, ” 1920s (frontispiece)

• Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920’s.  (Note, this is a very large document.)

Front cover of Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, 1920s	Title Page	Design 9010

• Price List of Marble and Granite Monuments in Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920s. (Price list for Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, above.)

Front cover of Price List of Marble & Granite Monuments for the Universal Monument Co. Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, 1920s

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