Marble Quarry Tennessee

The remnants of the illustrious marble industry which gave rise to knoxville becoming known as the marble city are on display throughout the property.

Marble quarry tennessee.

East tennessee s marble industry complementing the exhibition was quarry project tennessee which featured a remarkable multi media presentation composed of layers of historic and artistic imagery set to a soundtrack of live interviews and original music directed filmed and produced by kate. We also quarry many other varieties of marble including verde antique quaker gray and more. As described in the multiple property submission marble industry of east tennessee. Known as the marble city in the 19 th century knoxville has a long history of marble quarrying.

We process marble and limestone into tile block slabs pavers and any other architectural product you can imagine with access to quarries all over the world. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. In addition to our tennessee quarries we have access to quarries all over the us including vermont alabama colorado georgia indiana and others. In the minds of geologists the rock commonly known as the tennessee marble is actually limestone not marble at all.

The quarry is a family owned and operated wedding and special event venue residing in a historic marble quarry in the heart of west knoxville tennessee. Most other quarries are in the knoxville area including operational quarries near friendsville 35 km southwest of knoxville. Tennessee pink marble quarried here. Tennessee marble company is locally owned and operated since 1993 and is now one of the largest vertically integrated domestic marble companies in the united states with in house capabilities to.

Back then the ross marble company paid a small fee for land adjacent to what would soon become the ijams bird sanctuary and opened up a quarry to extract tennessee marble a highly polishable stone that was in great demand for grand buildings as well as national monuments. In 2016 2017 the east tennessee historical society produced a temporary exhibition rock of ages. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.