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Title	Kelley's Island Quarry Photographs
Subject	Business and Labor Geography and Natural Resources Quarries and quarrying Laborers
Place	Kelley's Island (Ohio) Ottawa County (Ohio)
Description	Five photographs document quarry operations on Kelley's Island at the turn of the twentieth century. The photographs measure between 4" x 6" (10.16 x 15.24 cm) and 5" x 7" (12.7 x 17.78 cm). Limestone quarries have existed on Kelley's Island since 1833. Limestone was a popular building material, and lime was also used for agricultural purposes. The stone quarried at Kelley's Island was brought by rail to the docks, loaded onto ships, and then transported to places like Cleveland and Detroit. In 1886 the company consolidated all the quarries on Kelley's Island, controlling almost two-fifths of the land of the island. They also operated a cooperage (barrel-making operation) and lime kilns to support their enterprises, and provided boarding houses for their employees. In 1908 the quarries briefly shut down, only to reopen a few months later. In 1940 they shut down again, not to reopen until the 1960s under new ownership. By 1972, however, they were closed again. Kelley's Island Lime and Transport Company donated its land for public use, and it became part of Lake Erie Islands State Park.
Date of Original	1890 - 1910 circa
Collection	Kurt E. Bokes Collection
Source	Audiovisual material 2001: 5605
Submitting Institution	Sandusky Library/Follett House Museum
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2544_3639172_028
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2544_3639172_028.tif
Image Height	1890
Image Width	2671
File Size	1587.507 KB

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