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

• Rome, Georgia – Quarry of Arillaceous Limestone in Floyd Formation (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. 174.

  Plate XV. A. Argillaceous limestone in the Floyd Formation. Quarry located in the City limits of Rome at the intersection of the North Rome and Attalla Railroad and the Rome-Summerville Public Road.

  Plate XV. B. Stone crushing plant owned by Floyd County, located immediately east of the quarry located in the city limits of Rome at the intersection of North Rome and Attalla Railroad and the Rome-Summerville Public Road (in “A” above).

• Rome (northern part of), Floyd County, Georgia – Quarry of Dark thick-bedded Calcareous Shale (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. 43)

  Fig. 5. Dark thick-bedded calcareous shale in quarry at crossing of Southern Railway over U.S. Hy. 27 in the northern part of Rome, Floyd County. This is regarded as a facies of the lower part of the Fort Payne chert formation and is provisionally called the Lavender member.

• Rossville, Georgia – the Chickamauga Cement Co. (Limestone) (The following information is from the section “Limes and Cements” in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Stone, Marble, Granite, Slate, Cement, Contracting and Building, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, January, 1902, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 78.)

  The Chickamauga Cement Co., of Rossville Georgia, has secured a contract for $15,000 (sic) barrels of cement for the Weaver Dam Co., to be used in the construction of a dam in Asheville, N.C.

  • Rossville, Walker County, Georgia – Chickamauga Cement Company’s Lime Kilns & Mill (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. 226.

    Plate XVIII. B. Lime kilns and mill of the Chickamauga Cement Company, Rossville, Walker County, Georgia.

• Rydal, Bartow County, Georgia – Flagstone Quarry (Flagstone) (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. 143)

  Fig. 13. Flagstone quarry (Weisner quartzite formation), five miles east of Rydal, Bartow County, Georgia.

• Six Mile Station, Floyd County, Georgia – the Quarry near Six Mile Station – Micrograph of Georgia Marble (Marble), from A Preliminary Report on the Marbles of Georgia, Bulletin No. 1, by S. W. McCallie, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 2nd ed., 1907, pp. 98. (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)

  Plate XXXI. Micrograph of Georgia Marble, Nos. 2

• Sparta (east of), Hancock County, Georgia – Georgia Quincy Granite Company’s Quarry – Photo-micrograph of the 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.

  Plate XVI. The Georgia Quincy Granite Company’s quarry, in a flat-surface outcrop of porphyritic granite, near Sparta, Georgia, on the Macon branch of the Georgia railroad. (pp. 184)

  Plate XV. Fig. 2. Photo-micrograph of the porphyritic granite from the Georgia Quincy Granite Company’s quarry, two mile east of Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia. Crossed Nicols x 74. (pp. 168)

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