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Quarry Trails Metro Park is a 220-acre (89 ha) metropolitan park in Columbus, Ohio, owned and operated by Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks.The park opened on November 30, 2021, as Central Ohio's 20th metro park.
In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons [6] [2] [3] apartments and Marble Cliff Crossing, a 100 single-family and 60 double-family subdivision built between 1998 and 2003. [7]
This is a list of notable quarries and areas of quarrying in the United States. A number of these are historic quarries listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), ranging from relatively ancient archeological sites to places having pre-World War II activity.
San Margherita is an unincorporated neighborhood directly west of Columbus, Ohio, half falling into Norwich Township and the other half in Franklin Township. [1] The area was settled in the early 20th century by Italian immigrants working for the Marble Cliff Quarry Company.
The quarry was the largest limestone quarry in the United States from its opening in the mid-19th century until its sale around 1985. [22] On November 30, 2021, the first 62-acre section of the park opened to the public and allows for biking, hiking, fishing, rock climbing, canoeing, paddle-boarding, floating boardwalks, a zipline, and a ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.27 square miles (0.70 km 2), all land. [4]One notable landmark located in Marble Cliff, scarcely known outside of central Ohio, is the Bush mansion.
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Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is located on the site. Flint is a variety of quartz and the flint on the ridge is within the Vanport Limestone Member of the Allegheny Formation of Pennsylvanian age. [2] [3] Flint Ridge was an important source of flint and Native Americans extracted the flint from hundreds of quarries along the ridge. [4]