Ochee Spring Quarry

Ochee Spring Quarry
Site of the quarry, c. 1920
Nearest cityJohnston, Rhode Island
NRHP reference No.78000003
Added to NRHPMay 5, 1978

Ochee Spring Quarry is an historic quarry in Johnston, Rhode Island. Located on a privately owned outcrop of land behind 787 Hartford Avenue (United States Route 6), the quarry was a source of steatite (soapstone), a relatively soft stone easily workable into containers. Native Americans are known to have used this quarry. A study of the site conducted in the mid-1980s concluded that the quarry was probably worked in an organized manner, to produce containers in a variety of sizes. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England.

The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ↑ Capace, Nancy (2001). The Encyclopedia of Rhode Island. North American Book Dist LLC. p. 21. ISBN 9780403096107.
  3. ↑ "Conference of New England Archaeology Newsletter, December 1985" (PDF). Retrieved October 27, 2016.