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Description
View of a lime quarry in Thomaston.
Written along the bottom is the sentence: "In distance is shown smoke from engines at Williams and Doherty Quarries."
Great cranes were used to lift both men and rock from the quarry. Most of the quarries were along Old County Road.
About This Item
- Title: Lime Quarry, Thomaston, ca. 1870
- Creator: Levi Morse
- Creation Date: circa 1870
- Subject Date: circa 1870
- Location: Thomaston, Knox County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 25 cm
- Local Code: PhotographBox97.16
- Object Type: Image
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- Quarries and quarrying--Maine--Thomaston
- Limestone quarrying--Maine--Thomaston
- Lime industry--Maine--Thomaston
- Cranes, derricks, etc.--Maine--Thomaston
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Thomaston Historical SocietyPO Box 384, Thomaston, ME 04861
(207) 354 2295
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