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P4 Pleasant!
George Jerry Delaney
Swickton, Betne Walnut
Bmlder ledge about 4 feet
above the water. 2-3 foot Dark
ladye.
Only one ledge of bluder lidge
that was worth quarrying,
about 6 in thick, it is as good
as ledges below
About 3 n 4 foot ledges bellow
the bluder ledge,
one 12-14 inches,
two or three from 3-6 in thick.
Never seen another the larger
ledges.
Black quarries
Used for building stone,
about west of Southern bridge
on by way. Occasionally
from bluder ledge, 5 inths
& dykes.
Hill sometimes worked before
the beach quarries w/ &'
w/ clined a railroad.
Beach quarries next long after,
two miles after;
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hills & Hyde park on Madison
road.
Takes Madison & Hyde
Park car,
P.J. Delaney, 1768 & McWillie's
North 3379 R.
W.H.
Mrs Cox first quarried,
Wayne, Armacoost & bulking
quarrys, opened up in
in 1867.
Last quarry in 1887,
Ernest Armacoost
forty yrs old. Heavy building
Turtle back came bellow the
boulder ledge
Better mine below.