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blue-Stone, but Is harder to work and apparently a little 

 more dense. Stone from this quarry is seen in the large 

 vault in Grove cemetery, Trumansburgh. A part of the 

 product is monumental bases. 



The stone from these quarries is carried by boats to 

 Cayuga, whence it goes to New York and to cities in the 

 central and western part of the state. 



Ithaca, Tompkins County.— Nearly all of the stone for 

 foundations and retaining walls, and much of the flagging- 

 stone used in Ithaca, comes from local quarries. There are 

 two quarries on the hill south of the town whence flagging- 

 stone is taken. Some of the stone for the university build- 

 ings was quarried on the university grounds. The sand- 

 stone of these quarries is of a greenish-gray shade of color, 

 fine-grained, and is durable, when selected with care. The 

 natural-face blocks are often rusty-looking, ironstained, or 

 dirty-yellow. Cascadilla hall is an example of the best of it. 



Sandstone of the Clinton Group 



This formation furnishes a building stone in Herkimer 

 and Oneida counties, and quarries are opened in the towns 

 of Frankfort, New Hartford, Kirkland and Verona. The 

 city of Utica uses the greater part of the stone from the 

 quarries at Clinton and those on Frankfort Hill. The stone 

 of the latter place is dark-gray and red-brown in color, me- 

 dium fine-grained and hard, so that dressing is costly. It is 

 used for foundations and common wall work, mainly. Grace 

 Protestant Episcopal church, on Genesee street, and the 

 Lutheran church, on Columbia street, are built of this stone. 



Sandstone has been extensively quarried at Higginsville, 

 Oneida County, by a Utica company. It is dark-gray and 

 olive-green in color; hard, and dressed with difficulty. 

 Some of this stone has been used in Rome. Fine exam- 

 ples of it are the Baker and Gilbert houses, on Genesee 

 street, Utica. 

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