Marble Quarry Tennessee

Known as the marble city in the 19 th century knoxville has a long history of marble quarrying.

Marble quarry tennessee. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material. We process marble and limestone into tile block slabs pavers and any other architectural product you can imagine with access to quarries all over the world. As described in the multiple property submission marble industry of east tennessee. Most other quarries are in the knoxville area including operational quarries near friendsville 35 km southwest of knoxville.

The ross marble quarry is eligible for listing in the national register of historic places for local and statewide significance under criterion a for its association with the east tennessee marble industry during its greatest period of significance 1890 1940. Back then the ross marble company paid a small fee for land adjacent to what would soon become the ijams bird sanctuary and opened up a quarry to extract tennessee marble a highly polishable stone that was in great demand for grand buildings as well as national monuments. Tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in east tennessee in the southeastern united states long esteemed by architects and builders for its pinkish gray color and the ease with which it is polished this stone has been used in the construction of numerous notable buildings and monuments throughout the united states and canada including the national gallery of art and. The remnants of the illustrious marble industry which gave rise to knoxville becoming known as the marble city are on display throughout the property.

In the minds of geologists the rock commonly known as the tennessee marble is actually limestone not marble at all. In 2016 2017 the east tennessee historical society produced a temporary exhibition rock of ages. Tennessee pink marble quarried here. The first operating tennessee marble quarry was near rogersville tn.

Tennessee marble company is locally owned and operated since 1993 and is now one of the largest vertically integrated domestic marble companies in the united states with in house capabilities to. In addition to our tennessee quarries we have access to quarries all over the us including vermont alabama colorado georgia indiana and others. We also quarry many other varieties of marble including verde antique quaker gray and more.