Ochee Spring Quarry
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Ochee Spring Quarry | |
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Site of the quarry, c. 1920 | |
| Nearest city | Johnston, Rhode Island |
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| NRHP Reference # | 78000003 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 5, 1978 |
Ochee Spring Quarry is an historic quarry in Johnston, Rhode Island. Located on a privately owned outcrop of land behind 787 Hartford Avenue (United States Route 6), the quarry was a source of steatite (soapstone), a relatively soft stone easily workable into containers. Native Americans are known to have used this quarry.[2] A study of the site conducted in the mid-1980s concluded that the quarry was probably worked in an organized manner, to produce containers in a variety of size. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England.[3]
The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
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References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Capace, Nancy (2001). The Encyclopedia of Rhode Island. North American Book Dist LLC. p. 21. ISBN 9780403096107.
- ↑ "Conference of New England Archaeology Newsletter, December 1985" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-10-27.
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