. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 2o6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM The principal difficulty in the production of the stone for the market has been to secure an even quality, as the serpentine has a tendency to gather in bunches and stringers which look like the knots in granites. Some of the larger occurrences of the serpentinous marble are in the vicinity of Port Henry, Essex county. The J. E. Reed quarry is 6 miles due west of Port Henry, in the town of Moriah, near the precipitous hill known as Broughton ledge. The beds are exposed for a vertical distance of 25 feet and in
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 2o6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM The principal difficulty in the production of the stone for the market has been to secure an even quality, as the serpentine has a tendency to gather in bunches and stringers which look like the knots in granites. Some of the larger occurrences of the serpentinous marble are in the vicinity of Port Henry, Essex county. The J. E. Reed quarry is 6 miles due west of Port Henry, in the town of Moriah, near the precipitous hill known as Broughton ledge. The beds are exposed for a vertical distance of 25 feet and in blocks up to 5 feet thick. They show a rather uniform mixture of car- bonates and serpentines, with here and there a band of pure serpen- tine from a few inches to several feet long. The bands are bent and. Fig. 18 Serpentinous marble, Reed quarry, Port Henry. Enlarged 10 times twisted in a most complex way. A small fault cuts through the exposure and on the north side of it the stone is more broken. The limestone outcrops 200 feet east of the quarry site and also on the property of S. A. Foote, one-half of a mile farther east. The quarry was last worked about twenty years ago. The product was used for monuments, several of which are to be seen in the Port Henry cemetery, and to some extent for coping and lintels. When exposed long to the weather the serpentine particles are brought in relief through the more rapid solution of the carbonates. The stone is better adapted for interior decoration than outside Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York
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