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List of Quarries in Indiana & Quarry Links, Photographs and Articles
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Bedford,
Indiana, Limestone Quarries – “A Glimpse of the Celebrated Stone Quarries
at Bedford, Indiana” (booklet ca late 1880s/early 1890s)
Largest stone ever shipped from Bedford, Ind. Quarries. Bedford Stone Quarries Co., Bedford, Ind., W't. 100,000 Lbs. Stone 12 feet 8 inches by 6 feet 3 inches by 6 feet 3 inches. 
Showing Trestle on Bedford Belt Railway 70 feet high and 800 feet in length. 
View of 40-foot Rock Cut on Bedford Belt Railway. 
Principal Storing Yards of Bedford Belt Railway. 
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Bedford, Indiana - Bedford Quarries Co. Limestone Quarry. The
photograph below is taken from Economic Geology of the United
States, By Ries, Heinrich, A.M., Ph.D., The MacMillan Company, London:
MacMillan & Co., Ltd. 1907.
Plate VI. Quarry in limestone, Bedford, Ind. Photo., Bedford Quarries Co. A horizontally bedded limestone, showing some weathering along the vertical joint planes.
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Bedford, Indiana – The Imperial Stone Company (The following information is from an advertisement in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, March, 1925, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 132.)
The Imperial Stone Company, Bedford, Indiana
Operating
Bedford Steam Stone Works
Imperial Stone Company
“Old Blue Hole Quarry"
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