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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 […]

Standard White Lime Pit

The image depicts a set of 24 large silos standing on the edge of Standard White Lime’s large quarry pit.

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 […]

Innerkip Lime and Stone

This image shows the gas-fired kilns at Innerkip Lime and Stone Company in 1939. This company started with 2 coal-fired kilns in 1929. These were likely built in […]

The Erie Steam Shovel

William Smith Otis (1813-1839) invented the “steam shovel” in 1836 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a revolutionary invention for the aggregate industry. Before Otis’ invention, almost all excavation projects were […]

Stelco’s Pit

This image above is part of an album compiled by Marion Kilcup in 1995. The album features photos beginning from the 1850s. The image depicts a sizeable pit […]

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.

Pumphouses

Whether these pools of water result from heavy rainfall or digs towards groundwater reserves, the pumping station on the right is set up to direct the water out […]

The Great Flood: Chemical Lime

This image shows the quarry pit filled with water at Innerkip Lime and Stone/Chemical Lime. Notice the mast of a submerged drill rig with its crown pulley reaching […]

Carmeuse Lime Limited Beachville Operation

The image shows Carmeuse Lime Limited‘s present-day limestone operation in Beachville at sunset, seen from the southeast on County Road 6. The Beachville White Lime Company initially mined […]