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Explore the limestone landscapes featured in "Bedrock of Beachville" through site maps, early excavation images, and pictures of full-size quarry pits. View various kilns, rock drills, power shovels, and conveyors that characterized Beachville’s quarries. Gain insights into the experiences of blacksmiths, drill operators, and truck drivers at the quarries. Some pages include audio recordings or contemporary video footage of explosives being detonated to take down huge sheets of rock. Click on an image to see it enlarged and described or to lead you to a video/audio clip.
A line of six, labelled glass containers filled with various grits of limestone
A magazine image showing advertisements for a line of lime products
A magazine cover for Cyanamid News featuring a man and a team of two horses ploughing a field
Two people outside of Innerkip Lime and Stone with a train car visible on the right
Black and white image of Standard White Lime quarry pit with horse and worker at bottom
Water pooled in a quarry pit with pieces of equipment slightly visible above the water
Black and white photograph of a quarry building partially submerged in water
A newspaper clipping titled Tracks washed out with an image of a trainwreck and a portrait of an older man
A newspaper clipping with two articles and two portraits of older men
A view up a flooded street with puddles in the foreground and a few buildings on the left
An aerial photograph of a river and a road that run parallel to another
Black and white image of vertical shaft kilns
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