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St. Mary’s Quarry

The St. Mary’s Quarry was a limestone quarry rehabilitated as an outdoor swimming and recreational area during the 1930s. It became a popular swimming area after the Second […]

The Locomotive in the Pit

This locomotive was used in the quarry pits of Beachville White Lime and North American Cyanamid for about 30 years between 1927 and 1957. It brought limestone from […]

Quarry Workers at the Train Wreck

In this article, Bill Eluchok shares the stories of Arthur Budd. He describes Budd’s role at the quarry, his experience of trying to get to work as waters […]

Cole & Hacker Quarry

Cole & Hacker was a recognized dealer in lime and building stone. The company hired hands to mine, burn, and transport limestone. It was heavily intertwined with other […]

Quarrying West of the Village: 1860 Onwards

At the centre of this map is the Village of Beachville. Above the Canadian National Railroad tracks (marked C.N.R.) are lots numbered 18 to 22. Lot 18 is […]

Early Lime Sites to the East

When looking at this diagram, note the river zigzagging at a diagonal and the location of the railroad (marked by a black and white band) running above the […]

Tramway Cars

After being blasted from the quarry wall, stone is loaded into cars. The cars are brought to the crusher incline by the locomotive. They are pulled to the […]

The Derrick on its Tracks

This image shows the derrick in action in 1910. The boom arm lifts full buckets of stone into a waiting freight car at the north edge of the […]

Transportation by Team & Wagon

This image shows a work crew and a team of horses at the Downing-Bremner quarries east of Monroe Sideroad (now Oxford County Road 6). Records from early quarries […]

The Transition to Trucks

Beachville’s roads were paved in the early 1920s, which sparked the introduction of trucks being used at the quarries. Trucks became useful at the pits and plants since […]

Tracks in the Pit

A faded black and white photograph of a work crew outside looking down on a group of horses attached to wooden carts along a track.

“The Lime Capital”

A road sign greets visitors to Beachville as they head east on Beachville Road (County Road 9). The sign acknowledges the village’s title as “The Lime Capital.” Given […]