Blue Ridge Marble Company

Linked to Pickens County

Details
Terms of Use

A train arrives at the Blue Ridge Marble Company about 1910. Later renamed Georgia Marble, the company was active in Cherokee and Pickens counties during the growth of the marble industry between the arrival of the railroads in the 1880s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
pck077-82a.

View on partner site

Blue Ridge Marble Company

Featured Content

Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Mid- to Late 20th Century Topics

Harriet Powers

Harriet Powers

Artists

Updated Recently

Usher

6 years ago

Music Archives and Repositories

2 months ago

Jermaine Dupri

3 years ago

The Sacred Harp

5 years ago

A More Perfect Union

The New Georgia Encyclopedia is supported by funding from A More Perfect Union, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Learn More