Tennessee Pink Marble Quarry

Back then the ross marble company paid a small fee for land adjacent to what would soon become the ijams bird sanctuary and opened up a quarry to extract tennessee marble a highly polishable stone that was in great demand for grand buildings as well as national monuments.

Tennessee pink marble quarry.

Since 1993 tmc has operated multiple quarries in tennessee which now total 6 including the acquisition of tennessee valley marble in 2007. Owned by monica gawet the company is the only active quarrier of tennessee marble in the u s. The company s now abandoned friendsville quarry and the candoro marble works have been listed on the national register of historic places. These tennessee quarries have supplied tennessee marble for many of the most historic buildings in our nation s capital and throughout north america.

The company operated quarries near friendsville and concord and was the foremost producer of pink tennessee marble in the early 1900s. Known as the marble city in the 19 th century knoxville has a long history of marble quarrying. Tennessee marble company 343 west vinegar valley road po box 249 friendsville tennessee tn 37737 email address. We are the exclusive quarrier of tennessee pink marble quaker gray marble verde antique marble cedar marble and more.

We also quarry many other varieties of marble including verde antique quaker gray and more. Founded in july 1993 the tennessee marble company is a family business that owns and operates four quarries in tennessee as well as the seasonally operated champlain black quarry in isle lamotte vt. The stone itself has a long standing history and tennessee marble company which currently has 30. Tennessee pink marble quarried here.

We are also a supplier of many other marble and limestone varieties and have a full processing operation to fabricate virtually any architectural stone product you can imagine. We process marble and limestone into tile block slabs pavers and any other architectural product you can imagine with access to quarries all over the world. Off white pink and dark red limestone has been quarried from beds and lenses within the holston formation in the valley and ridge physiographic province of the appalacians of eastern tennessee since1838.