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  • Collection: Slate Quarries

Penn Lynn Acme 1 web.jpg
Quarry has been filled in and is now the site of the borough's municipal building. Acme supermarket building was to the left on top of the quarry refuse pile.

Blue Mountain Slate Quarry web.jpg
Blue Mountain slate quarry near Slatington, seen looking east, showing the character of the syncline and the bending over southward of the cleavage at the surface, probably due to the friction and weight of the glacier

Eureka Slate Quarry p web.png
Eureka slate quarry near Slatington, north part seen looking east, showing an eroded northward-inclined close syncline crossed by cleavage and curved joints, and overlain by glacial deposits.

Slate Quarry p web.png
Slate quarry near Slatington, seen looking west, showing workmen engaged in clearing a "ribboned" slate from the surface of thick workable bed.

Tunnel Quarry Marker web.jpg
On Welshtown Road, right at the Slatington borough line.

625 Quarry 1906 web.jpg
This is a view from a little west of the former Penn Lyn quarry, looking north across Trout Creek.
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