. History of Tennessee, from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore counties;. -mental work. In 1852 James Sloan opened a quarry about two miles north of Knox-ville, near the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad. It wasfrom this quarry that the variegated marble used in the capitol at Nash-ville was obtained. The first quarry in the vicinity of Concord was opened in the lands ofWilliam T. Smith by S. L. King, 185(3. He also constructed a smallmill on Lime Creek, where some marble was sawed. Col. John
. History of Tennessee, from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore counties;. -mental work. In 1852 James Sloan opened a quarry about two miles north of Knox-ville, near the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad. It wasfrom this quarry that the variegated marble used in the capitol at Nash-ville was obtained. The first quarry in the vicinity of Concord was opened in the lands ofWilliam T. Smith by S. L. King, 185(3. He also constructed a smallmill on Lime Creek, where some marble was sawed. Col. John Williams also opened a quarry previous to the war, a fewmiles northeast of Knoxville, from which marble of the gray variety wasobtained. The most extensive quarry in Tennessee, and one of the oldest now inoperation in the vicinity of Knoxville, was opened by the United StatesGovernment in 18G9 to procure stone for the construction of the customhouse and postoffice buildings at Knoxville. A considerable quantity ofthis marble was also used in the State Capitol at Albany, New York. Thequarry is located at the junction of the French Broad and Holston Rivers,. HISTORY OF TENNESSEE. 269 and the stone is carried by boat four miles to Knoxville. This marble issusceptible o£ a high polish, and when so polished has a pink tinge andshows dark wavy lines running through it. It is highly esteemed formantels and table-tops, because it is not easily stained. It is also largelyused for cemetery work, and tombstones which have been exposed forthirty years do not show the slightest signs of disintegration or wear. Morgan & Williams operate two quarries within two miles of Knox-ville, one of them producing a white marble, and the other a pink mate-rial known as Knoxville marble. The former was used in the construc-tion of the custom house at Memphis, and the shaft of the Lee monumentat New Orleans is made of it. The supply of this marble is practicallyinexhaustible. The total capital invested i
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