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List of Quarries in Georgia & Quarry Links,
Photographs and Articles
- Odessadale (near), Georgia – the Tigner Quarry
Photo – Micrograph of Dark Blue-gray Granite (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.
40.
Plate III. Fig. 1. Photo-micrograph of dark blue-gray granite, from the Tigner Quarry, near Odessadale, Meriwether County, Georgia. Crossed Nicols x 74. 
- Ogglesby-Lexington, Georgia - Map of
Oglesby-Lexington and Elberton-Echols Mill Granite
Areas, Georgia (Granite)
(From Granites of the Southeastern
Atlantic States, Bulletin 426, 1910)
fig. 18 Map of Oglesby-Lexington and Elberton-Echols Mill granite areas, Georgia 
- Oglesby (near), Elbert County, Georgia – Childs
Quarry – View of part of the quarry near Oglesby,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. 280.
Plate XXVIII. View of a part of the Child’s quarry, near Oglesby, Georgia, showing veins of pegmatite cutting the granite. 
- Oglesby (near), Elbert County, Georgia – the Child’s
Quarry – Photo-micrograph of the Dark-Blue Granite (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. 208.
Plate XX. Fig. 2. Photo-micrograph of the dark-blue granite, from the Child’s quarry, near Oglesby, Elbert County, Georgia. Crossed Nicols x 74. 
- Oglesby, Elbert County, Georgia – the Coggins
Granite 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. 224.
Plate XXII. Fig. 1. Views in the Coggins Granite Quarry, Oglesby, Elbert County, Georgia. Shows the decayed dark-blue granite overlying the fresh rock. 
Plate XXII. Fig. 2. Views in the Coggins Granite Quarry, Oglesby, Elbert County, Georgia. Illustrates the Spheroidal Weathering of the granite. 
- Oglesby (near) Elbert County, Georgia – the Coggins
Granite Company’s Hill 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.
216.
Plate XXI. The Hill Quarry of the Coggins Granite Company, on the Seaboard Air-line Railway, near Oglesby, Granite. 
- Oglesby (near), Georgia - Long Granite Company’s
Quarry (Granite)(From Granites
of the Southeastern Atlantic States, Bulletin 426, 1910)
Plate V-B. Showing concentric weathering. 
- Oglethorpe-Madison-Elbert Area, Georgia – Map
of the Oglethorpe-Madison-Elbert Granite Area (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. 200.
Map of the Oglethorpe-Madison-Elbert Granite Area of Georgia 
- Oglethorpe County, Georgia – the Georgia-Carolina Quarries Inc. Granite Quarries (Granite). In 1995 this company was operating three granite quarries in Oglethorpe County. At that time the company headquarters was in Mount Airy, North Carolina. (From United States Geological Survey, "Mineral Industries Surveys - Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995," prepared in January 1997.)
- Oglethorpe County, Georgia – the Service Granite Co. Granite Quarry (Granite). In 1995 this company was operating a granite quarry in Oglethorpe 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.)
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