descriptive notes of quarry districts and quarries 259 



Hudson River Group 



Highland, Ulster County. — Quarries on the river bank, two 

 miles north of Hiehland station, were formerly worked ex- 

 tensively. 



Rhinebeck, Dutchess County. — The New York Central and 

 Hudson River Railroad Company continues work at its 

 quarry, a half mile south of the station. 



New Baltimore, Greene County.— The sandstone is here on 

 edge, and is generally in thick beds, interstratified with a 

 black, shaly rock. The quarries are not worked to the same 

 extent as in former years. The stone is dark-gray to slate- 

 colored. Much stone has been obtained here for the Hud- 

 son river dyking and for dock-filling. 



Troy, Rensselaer County.— Sandstone is quarried on Paw- 

 ling avenue, near the Memorial church, and on Fourth 

 street, near and south of the Poestenkill. It is used for 

 foundations and common wall work in the city, exclusively. 

 And the quarries are in operation at such times as the de- 

 mand for stone requires. 



Aqueduct, Schenectady County.— Three quarries have been 

 opened at this point. The stone is gray to blue in color 

 and fine-grained. It is known in the market as ''Schenec- 

 tady bluestone," and is used in common wall work in 

 Albany, Cohoes and Troy. 



Stone with natural-face (joint) surfaces and even-bedded 

 is broken into rectangular blocks and is used in ashlar, 

 work. Some of the older stone buildings in Albany have 

 their walls of these natural-face blocks. 



Schenectady.— Shears & Dunsbach have a quarry on the 

 canal, one mile east of the railroad depot, which is the 

 source of supply to a large extent, for stone used in the city, 

 although shipments are made to Albany, Waterford, 

 Cohoes, Troy, Mechanicsville and Saratoga. 



This stone can be seen in the Memorial hall of Union 

 university and in the East Avenue Presbyterian church; 



