Erie Stone Company

Description:	The Erie Stone company was organized February 27, 1906 with offices at Vert, Ohio, and operations were started one and one-half miles east of the Huntington county courthouse on the Anthony A. Weber farm. In 1912 the offices were moved to Toledo, which is their present location. The first directors were I.F. France, N.R. France, W.G. France, C.L. Ireland, and C.W. McKee. Mr. McKee was general manager and Fred Weber was plant superintendent. Stone was quarried by hand at that time and only two sizes were made, railroad ballast and crusher run. A few years later another plant was started at Bluffton and is still in operation. As time went on large steam shovels and industrial railroad equipment were installed along with more and larger mill and crusher machinery. Operations at this site were discontinued in 1934 and the hole allowed to fill with water, which is now known as Lake Clare. In 1935 the company moved to an new location a short distance east of the old quarry in an abandoned quarry formerly operated by Peter Martin who manufactured burnt lime. The quarry is still in operation. The company now has a modern crushed stone plant with up to-date machinery, and have approximately 30 employees. They carry complete insurance and hospital benefit plan, have an industrial nurse and paid vacations, are active in safety first network, give quarterly dinners, and yearly awards to all employees working a full year without a lost time accident. The present board of directors consists of G.A. France, president and treasurer; Nat R. France, vice president; C.F. Martig, secretary and assist treasurer; R.L. Wentz, and R.H. Rogers. The plant manager at the present time is A.C. Nickelsen who came here in 1940, and the office manager is J.T. Curran who came to this city in 1920. From the Huntington Herald-Press, Huntington, Indiana.
Origin:	c. 1980
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll15/id/247
Collection:	Huntington City-Township Public Library
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Subjects:	Limestone quarrying Quarrying Stone cutting Stone quarrying Snapshots Abandoned buildings

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