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About Old Grain. Based in Marble, Colorado, home to the historic Yule Marble quarry, Old Grain was forged from a love of the history in natural materials and a passion for wood. Whether it is a whole building or a simple bed, our credo is to skillfully fit pieces of old wood together into a silhouette of a home, or a frame of something that is ...

To this day, five grades of marble are still quarried at the Yule Marble Quarry: Calacatta Lincoln, Calacatta Gold Extra, Calacatta Golden Classic, Statuario Colorado, and Aspen Grey. The Calacatta Lincoln is by far the quarry's most prestigious and sought after material.

Yule Creek Lodge in Marble provides a real mountain getaway experience for the whole family. Details: This off the grid home includes running water, showers, indoor bathroom, laundry, refrigerator, gas cooking stove and fireplace.

And in true Yule marble quarry tradition following in the footsteps of John C. Osgood and Channing F. Meek, this time around it came about via the efforts of Denver oilman Stacy Dunn. 1989 Disaster strikes Yule marble, yet again, as the quarries' new owner, Stacy Dunn, follows a similar fate to that of Channing Meek, back in 1912.

Annie Ban Druten talking with her friend Lorena Fernandez in the late afternoon sun at the Marble Bar actually made from a nine-ton block of Yule Quarry Marble in the Marble Distilling Co. and The ...

Marble, Colorado is about 17 miles southwest of Aspen, as the crow flies. At one time it was home to thousands of people, many of them Italian immigrants, working the marble obtained from the Yule Quarry in a finishing mill, which was the world's largest.

1892: The Colorado Marble and Mining Company started work to develop the marble beds on Yule Creek. * The townsite of Marble was awarded the Post Office which both Marble and Clarence had requested. 1893: John C. Osgood's Yule Creek White Marble Company sent a large block of marble from the Yule Creek quarry to the World' Columbian ...

May 01, 2016· A Look Inside Colorado's Stunning Marble Quarry ... Mazzucchelli immediately recognized the value in what was then called the Colorado Yule Quarry. Taking advantage of a thick seam of unusually pure marble high in a mountain southeast of town, the quarry started producing in the 1870s and provided the stone for the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb ...

Apr 15, 2016· Marble Quarry Road is an difficult road you can hike, run, and mountain bike to the Yule Marble Quarry gate. This is a 3.1 mile dirt road in Marble, CO. More information about the Yule Marble Quarry can be found at: Colorado Stone Quarries – Colorado Yule Marble Quarry Marble Tourism Association – Yule Marble Quarry

By 1905 there were three, more or less active marble quarries operating, and Marble's population had grown to 150. The Colorado Yule Marble Company, organized in 1906, leased the Crystal River Railroad from Carbondale to Placita and built 7 miles of new track into Marble, naming the spur the Crystal River & San Juan Railroad.

Those on the west, being the John Osgood quarry, (pit-type started in the early 1890s) and the present day quarry started in 1905 by the Colorado Yule Marble Company inside the mountain. The east side quarry, started in 1904 by the Strauss brothers, was quarried inside Whitehouse Mountain.

Yule Marble Company Finishing Mill ca. 1913. At its peak, the Colorado Yule Marble Company employed several hundred men at the enormous finishing mill at Marble, with a high percentage of them being skilled laborers from Italy. The quarry employed around 125 men. Marble peaked in 1914 with around 1,500 residents.

Those on the west, being the John Osgood quarry, (pit-type started in the early 1890s) and the present day quarry started in 1905 by the Colorado Yule Marble Company inside the mountain. The east side quarry, started in 1904 by the Strauss brothers, was quarried inside Whitehouse Mountain.

Sep 17, 2018· The quarry is an awesome place to work, the stone is one of the finest marbles in the world -- and home of marble that built the Lincoln Memorial, and serves as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington. In 2013 the opportunity to assist one of the previous owners open a new white marble quarry, and I now am involved in a new operation.

At long last, the once splendid Colorado Yule Marble Company's prized marble quarry is back in business, and how! ... a newly revitalized famous old quarry is once again back in business like never before. New experienced Italian management, backed with sufficient capital with which to capitalize upon such a rare asset, point to Yule being ...

Colorado Yule Marble Quarry. The Colorado Yule Marble Quarry produces one of the finest white marbles in the world. It operated from 1905 to 1941, and is the source of the stone used for the exterior of the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C. Yule Marble was declared the Colorado State Rock in 2004.

A partial list of structures containing Yule marble, 1905 to 1941, from the quarry started by the Colorado-Yule Marble Company. The Colorado state capitol was an 1895 contract with the quarry of John Osgood. The dollar amount after a building name is the amount of marble.

Marble Colorado Western Mining History. Yule Marble Quarry ca. 1910 A settlement was established at Marble in the 1880s as a supply point for prospectors in the area but remained a small outpost until the late 1890s when sporadic shipments of marble started leaving the valley.

Quick Description: This quarry and mill site provide world famous Colorado Yule Marble - the marble of the Lincoln Memorial building and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "Constructed sometime between 1896 and 1905, the mill produced marble that was used in the construction of the Lincoln Memorial ...

Almost all of the current quarrying is taking place in these new quarries while the 'old quarry' remains a proud, silent page in the history of the USA. The Colorado Yule Marble Quarry is unique in that it sits at 9,000' feet above sea level just outside of Marble, Colorado, USA, and is completely landlocked.

Sep 20, 2013· A trip to the historic Yule Marble Quarry site is especially a must for anyone who likes seeing heavy equipment in action. We pulled up just in time to watch a crew load and unload 15+ ton blocks of marble using a WA600 Wheel Loader. Translation: One big frackin' forklift!

Jun 01, 2016· In Marble, CO there is a stone quarry that has unearthed marble that has graced the Lincoln Memorial, the Tomb of the Unknowns, the Equitable Building (among other skyscrapers in NYC), and so much ...

The company that handeled the mining here was the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the Colorado-Yule Marble Company which J.C. Osgood, of nearby redstone fame, had control of. The town is still alive today although there isn't much mining going on.

Marble Quarry – The Yule Marble Quarry was founded in the late 1800s. This is where the town gets its name. Its marble is of the best quality, rival of the classical Italian and Greek marble. It's almost pure calcite marble, with only a minority of mica, feldspar and quartz.
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