A once-thriving marble quarry, this massive cavern is now a popular spot for off-beat adventures with hiking in the summer and ice skating in the winter.

River banks and roadsides for miles around the quarry are littered with broken chunks of white marble. An out-of-control rail car dumped a block and killed an early Colorado Yule president.

Turns out they’re historic scraps from the nearby marble quarry. “Anywhere you see marble is actually where the rail line was,” said Alex Menard, who runs the local history museum.

The first prospector to take note of the economic potential of the marble deposits in the Yule Creek drainage was Sylvester Richardson in 1873. He predicted that the deposits would someday support … ...

Marble resident Craig Donaldson, Centennial Committee chairman, said that to the best of his knowledge, the trail is blocked because Colorado Yule Marble did some work near the quarry portal accessed ...

A portion of the rock of J. K. N. FREEDLY'S marble quarry, at West Stockbridge, fell in this afternoon and killed DAVID RICHARDSON, the foreman, PATRICK TIDINGS, MICHAEL MAY, MICHAEL KENNEDY and ...

The British Vice Consul at Spezia, in a report on the Carrara marble industry, says that last year the production of the quarries was 108,951 tons of ordinary and statuary marble, and 52,360 tons ...

Augusta Quarry just reopened and Mead's Quarry is a longtime favorite. Here's what to know about enjoying these beautiful ...

At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy’s Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata (pictured above) – a quaint place famed for its pork lard and quarry workers. The stone ...

Meads Quarry and the popular Tharp Trace Trail are closed at Ijams Nature Center because of a " significant landslide." On May 25, a rockslide took out part of the large wall on the back side of ...