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crosses Sullivan Comity until the Delaware River is reached, 

 where quarrying is carried on all the way from Port Jervis to 

 Narrowsburg on both sides of the river. Very little quarrying is 

 done through the mountainous districts, although many quarries 

 have been opened with a fair profit in Delaware County along the 

 line of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, The stone produced 

 here, as well as along the Delaware River, is of a deep-red color, 

 contains large quantities of ferruginous matter, is of uneven 

 texture, requiring more cutting, and is much inferior to the stone 

 <|uarried in Ulster County. 



The history of the discovery and first attempt to quarry blue- 

 stone for the market is shrouded in uncertainty. It is known, 



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Fig. S.^Quaeetman's Home with FauBisn Banks in Eeae, West Hcblet, N. Y. 



however, that a man named Moray opened a quarry at what has 

 since been called Moray Hill, near Kingston, as early as 1836. 

 His son, the late Daniel Moray, of Kingston, said that his father 

 was the first person to put bluestone as a product on the market, 

 drawing the stone to Kingston with an ox team and selling it for 

 window-sills and lintels. Philip Van de Bogart Lockwood was 

 the most prominent producer of bluestone for many years after 

 this, hauling the quarried product to the docks at Kingston Point, 

 where it was loaded on sailing vessels and taken to the New York 

 market. Later on, Abijali Smith built a dock and bought stone 

 at Wilbur, which he shipped to New York, and in the early fifties 

 the industry became so important that a plank road, eleven miles 

 in length, was built on the Ulster and Delaware turnpike through 



