Colorado Lincoln Marble

While lincoln himself was carved from georgia marble the gleaming building that surrounds him is all marble marble quarried shaped and polished in rural colorado more than a century ago.

Colorado lincoln marble.

This one is a marble of metamorphosed limestone found only in the yule creek valley in the west elk mountains of colorado 2 8 miles 4 5 km southeast of the town of marble colorado. Honed available options format thickness size price level availability slab 3 cm varies 7 in stock print spec sheet care maintenance. These qualities are why it has been chosen for a number of major national and state landmarks most notably the lincoln memorial. Colorado stone quarries inc 1734hwy 50e delta co 81416 united states 1 970 874 6118 1 970 874 6118.

It is the grain of colorado yule marble that gives it an appearance of smooth texture a homogeneous look and a luminous surface that polishes well. Colorado marble it is the grain of our marble that gives it an appearance of smooth texture a homogeneous look and a luminous surface that polishes well. The town population was 131 at the 2010 united states census. The town of marble is a statutory town in gunnison county colorado united states.

The first three are highlighted by a bright white background with veins ranging from gold to gray of varying intensity and thickness. Colorado lincoln marble quarry the detail includes quarry material location stock and so on you can contact the colorado lincoln marble quarry quarry owner colorado stone quarries inc. The east side quarry started in 1904 by the strauss brothers was quarried inside whitehouse mountain. Those on the west being the john osgood quarry pit type started in the early 1890s and the present day quarry started in 1905 by the colorado yule marble company inside the mountain.