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  • History of Limestone | Limestone University

    Deposits from the Limestone Quarry, furnished lime used in the production of iron during the American Revolution and throughout the 19th century. By the 1820s, the open pit was a quarry owned by U.S. Congressman Wilson Nesbitt and was on a large tract including Limestone Springs which later became a …

  • Quarry Historical Marker To Be Dedicated | Limestone ...

    The site was often referred to as "Nesbitt's Quarry." Limestone Springs High School, founded in 1845, became Cooper-Limestone Institute in 1881 and Limestone College in 1898. The Quarry was acquired by the school prior to the Civil War and was sold to pay debts in 1883.

  • Limestone College Historical Marker

    Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry is the most extensive and best preserved limestone quarry directly associated with early iron production in the northwestern Piedmont of South Carolina. It was utilized as early as the eighteenth century, and through the first half of the nineteenth century was the primary source of limestone for the region's ironworks.

  • Gaffney Multiple Resource Area Limestone Springs Historic ...

    Limestone Springs Historic District View across Nesbitt's Quarry to Limestone Springs Baptist Church. Gaffney Multiple Resource Area Cherokee County, S.C. Thomason and Assoc., September, 1985 S.C. Dept. of Archives and History Columbia, S.C. Limestone Springs Historic District

  • Limestone Quarry - SCTrails

    The Limestone College Quarry Trail is a 0.4-mile natural surface trail. Visitors can enjoy walking or jogging this trail, which winds along Limestone College's athletic facility. Nesbitt's Quarry (locally referred to as the Limestone Quarry) is located the beautiful Limestone …

  • Limestone Quarry - Limestone University Archives ...

    Limestone deposits here furnished lime used in the production of iron during the American Revolution and throughout the 19th century. By the 1820s this open pit was a quarry owned by U.S. Congressman Wilson Nesbitt and was on a large tract including Limestone Springs, which later became a popular antebellum resort.

  • You are here - NCPTT | National Center for Preservation ...

    Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry. Submitted by Matt Pailes on Mon, 10:24. Name Alias: 38CK69. Stone Type (Commercial): Limestone. Location. O'Neal St extension and Limestone College. 29340 Gaffney, South Carolina. United States. 35° 6' 0" N, 81° 39' 0" W. See ...

  • United States Department of the Interior National Park ...

    10. Nesbitt's Quarry: This site was the location of a limestone quarry at least by 1820. The quarry was worked through much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Although most of the limestone was removed by the open pit method, some underground shafts of approximately 100 to 150 feet were excavated from the walls of the quarry.

  • Limestone Historical Marker

    Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry is the most extensive and best preserved limestone quarry directly associated with early iron production in the northwestern Piedmont of South Carolina. It was utilized as early as the eighteenth century, and through the first half of the nineteenth century was the primary source of limestone for the region's ironworks.

  • National Register Sites in South Carolina

    Nesbitt 's Limestone Quarry is the extensive and best preserved linaestone quarry directly associated with early iron production in the northwestern Piedmont of South Carolina. It was utilized as early as the eighteenth century, and through the first half of the nineteenth .

  • SCDAH - South Carolina

    Nesbitt's Quarry : Limestone Springs Baptist Church: The Limestone Springs Historic District includes ten buildings and one site associated with Limestone College and the community of Limestone Springs. The district is a significant collection of properties reflecting the history of the area in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a ...

  • Nesbitt's Quarry

    Nesbitt's Quarry Historic Property Alternate Name: Limestone Lake. Site Number: S108042002500151 Site Number: 4 Date Surveyed: January 25 1985 Construction Date: 1811 Survey: Gaffney - City, 1985 Archives Location: Box 25, Series 108042, Survey of historic resources (county by county data on surface properties), circa 1971-2014.

  • Talk:Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry (38CK69) - Wikipedia

    Talk:Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry (38CK69) This article is within the scope of WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of U.S. historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join ...

  • Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry (38CK69) - Wikipedia

    Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry (38CK69) is a historic archaeological site located near Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina.The site includes the most extensive and best preserved limestone quarry associated with early iron production in the northwestern Piedmont of South Carolina. It was the primary source of limestone for the region's ironworks.