DESCRIPTION OF SANDSTONE QUARRIES 



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Bank building, Oswego ; Protestant Episcopal church, and a block 

 of stores in Cortland ; and new Jewish synagogue, Buffalo. 

 Small quarries are opened westward in this formation at 



Camden, Oneida County 



Sterling, Cayuga County 



Wolcott, Wayne County 



Penfield, Monroe County 



At Rochester the gorge of the Genesee river exposes to view 

 a fine section of the formation. Formerly some stone was obtained 

 from quarries in the river bluffs. In Monroe county generally 

 this sandstone is too argillaceous to be durable* 



What is more particularly known as the Medina sandstone 

 district, is that portion of the outcrop which extends from Brock- 

 port in Monroe county west to Lockport. The belt is narrow, 

 and the quarries are opened in it near the Erie canal. They 

 are grouped here as follows : 



Brockport, Monroe County 

 Holley, Orleans County 

 Hulberton, Orleans County 

 Hindsburg, Orleans County 

 Albion, Orleans County 

 Medina, Orleans County 

 Shelby Basin, Orleans County 

 Lockport, Niagara County 



Brockport. — Two quarries are opened at this place. 



Holley, Orleans County. — There are five quarries at Holley. 

 Those of Downs & Bowman, Michael Slack, and O'Brien & Co., 

 Fletcher & Sons,f and the Big Six Stone Company are near the 

 canal and the New York Central railroad. The beds lie nearly 

 horizontal, and under a light stripping of earth and boulders. 

 The stone is of a light-red color and fine-grained. 



The output is largely in the form of blocks for street paving, 

 curbing, crosswalks and gutter stone. 



Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and western cities, as far as 

 Kansas City, are markets. 



* ProC. Hall's Report on the Survey of the Fourth District, Albany, 1843, pp. 432-3. 

 t Not at present in operation. 



