Quarry Trip 2016
Our $4 class of the semester on $3. We met at 2pm in $5 and DESCRIPTION.
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Day trip to Brownstone Park, Portland, CT.
The quarry where the brownstone for Cooper's Foundation Building (and many brownstone buildings in New York) was originally sourced from is now a waterpark.
See also: Bidding Farewell to a City’s Precious Stone, The New York Times (Oct. 22, 2012):After being mined on and off for centuries, the Portland Brownstone Quarries, the very last of a kind, closed down this year, and by the end of this month, the quarry’s final scraps of inventory should be gone.
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The stone fell out of fashion, and by the 1940s, the Portland quarries, flooded by the Connecticut River in a major storm, were shuttered. It wasn’t until the mid-1990s that Mike Meehan, a geologist with a background in coal exploration, reopened the ground at the edge of the quarry, slicing chunks of brownstone off a wall about 20 feet high and 650 feet long.
But most of the area is still filled with water, and Mr. Meehan’s closest neighbor is a recreational water park, where zip lines crisscross an old brownstone quarry.
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Ladders lean against the quarry walls ;)
Block party swag at the Quarry
