Tank next to quarry driveway and a flat concrete pad, between pits.
One of many piles.
This was sitting rather high up on the sw side of the southern pit.
Ozora Marble Quarry
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Tank next to quarry driveway and a flat concrete pad, between pits.
One of many piles.
This was sitting rather high up on the sw side of the southern pit.
Tank next to quarry driveway and a flat concrete pad, between pits.
One of many piles.
This was sitting rather high up on the sw side of the southern pit.
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More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
As previously noted, reaching this is extremely out in the open. The road to it is clearly marked as a dead end and there's a house on the corner that can see pretty much the whole dead-end road. The highway can also see most of that road.
There is a low water bridge across the creek, blocked by a cable, that used to be the quarry driveway. Now it turns left and goes around the hill to a, out-of-sight, house. There are a few concrete ruins along the quarry drive by the river. A foundation for a giant horizontal tank and a small drainage or pump structure right next to the creek with an old tube screen nearby are the largest and most recognizable.
On the north side of the road is a barn/shed that looks like it's used and an abandoned house.
SE from the house there appears to be another maintained barn/shed.
The road goes further, crosses the creek bed and ends in a field. If the creek is down you can park near it and be out of sight of the house at the corner and highway, but not of the driveway that crosses the creek.
I really expected someone to be by my vehicle when I got back to it or a note or something, but thankfully there wasn't.
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The northern pit struck me as older than the southern, cause is was really overgrown with lots more trees both around and in the pit.
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The water in both pits is extremely calm. No ripples, no movement, the southern pit made no noise, but one could hear a small stream of water falling into the pool some where in the mines of the northern pit. I couldn't see it though.
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While one can climb down to the bottom of the northern pit, it's fairly steep, so I only went about halfway down.
The whole area is a climber's paradise.
There is a low water bridge across the creek, blocked by a cable, that used to be the quarry driveway. Now it turns left and goes around the hill to a, out-of-sight, house. There are a few concrete ruins along the quarry drive by the river. A foundation for a giant horizontal tank and a small drainage or pump structure right next to the creek with an old tube screen nearby are the largest and most recognizable.
On the north side of the road is a barn/shed that looks like it's used and an abandoned house.
SE from the house there appears to be another maintained barn/shed.
The road goes further, crosses the creek bed and ends in a field. If the creek is down you can park near it and be out of sight of the house at the corner and highway, but not of the driveway that crosses the creek.
I really expected someone to be by my vehicle when I got back to it or a note or something, but thankfully there wasn't.
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The northern pit struck me as older than the southern, cause is was really overgrown with lots more trees both around and in the pit.
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The water in both pits is extremely calm. No ripples, no movement, the southern pit made no noise, but one could hear a small stream of water falling into the pool some where in the mines of the northern pit. I couldn't see it though.
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While one can climb down to the bottom of the northern pit, it's fairly steep, so I only went about halfway down.
The whole area is a climber's paradise.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
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Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
There's a bunch of info on this quarry in the link below:
Click Here
There's also a list of buildings that utilized marble from there. Of particular interest is this paragraph:
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There's also a list of buildings that utilized marble from there. Of particular interest is this paragraph:
“Stone from the Ozora Marble Quarry has been used in the Department of Commerce Building and National Archives Building in Washington, DC, and many other buildings from Connecticut to Hawaii. In the National archives, the cases which hold the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are Golden Vein Marble from the Ozora County.”
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
Cool.the_p0ssum wrote:There's a bunch of info on this quarry in the link below
Seems I was wrong, the north quarry is newer.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
WOW!!!
Thanks for sharing. Looks like an incredible place. I'd love to see it some day but man entrance seems sooooo sketchy.
The way everything has been cut at an angle gives it an almost surreal appearance. I suppose that's so they have the "grain" going the right way in the slabs.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like an incredible place. I'd love to see it some day but man entrance seems sooooo sketchy.
The way everything has been cut at an angle gives it an almost surreal appearance. I suppose that's so they have the "grain" going the right way in the slabs.
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Yeah, it did look surreal, especially the northern pit!Chris wrote:The way everything has been cut at an angle gives it an almost surreal appearance. I suppose that's so they have the "grain" going the right way in the slabs.
It's hard to tell scale in the photos, but each strip cut out was 4'-6' tall. The ledges left by each cut are 6"- 14" deep.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
Interesting, this is just down the road. Buy some wine and biscotti. Enjoy them in a large cave.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
RE: Ozora Marble Quarry
Hell yeah! That's some cool shit. I was supposed to go down there a few months ago but our plans changed. Pickle Springs is a really cool hike if you're in the area.
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Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
Cave Winery is an awesome respite when it's hot & muggy in the middle of summer!
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Nicotti, I hate you so much right now!!! 
That site looks amazing, wish I could have been there!
Then again, I'm about to move to New Mexico, and will have hundreds of underground hard rock mines (on public land no less) to explore within a few hours' drive, so I guess we're about even.
That site looks amazing, wish I could have been there!
Then again, I'm about to move to New Mexico, and will have hundreds of underground hard rock mines (on public land no less) to explore within a few hours' drive, so I guess we're about even.
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
Headframe, what does this do? I assume it's part of the hoist system since it has pulleys on it.
Nicotti wrote:
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
Great pics Nicotti. Bringing the gold as always.
Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
Me gusta el pile.Nicotti wrote:One of many piles.
Preservation over plunder.
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Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
It's interesting to me how there's no value in what remains of the mine or in the scattered blocks still lying around. If anything, marble has become even more popular in the decades since the mine closed. Hard to imagine there's no way to profit from that unless the veins are truly played out.
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Re: Ozora Marble Quarry
I actually haven't the foggiest idea, but the way it's put together makes me think it's something like a crane hook block. Just a guess, I'm not a crane guy.Nicotti wrote:Headframe, what does this do? I assume it's part of the hoist system since it has pulleys on it.
Nicotti wrote: