Ochee Spring Quarry is an historic quarry in Johnston, Rhode Island. Located on a privately owned outcrop of land behind 787 Hartford Avenue (United States Route 6), the quarry was a source of steatite (soapstone), a relatively soft stone easily workable into containers. Native Americans are known to have used this quarry.[2] A study of the site conducted in the mid-1980s concluded that the quarry was probably worked in an organized manner, to produce containers in a variety of sizes. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England.[3]
Ochee Spring Quarry | |
 Site of the quarry, c. 1920 | |
| Nearest city | Johnston, Rhode Island |
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| NRHP reference No. | 78000003 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 5, 1978 |
The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
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editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Capace, Nancy (2001). The Encyclopedia of Rhode Island. North American Book Dist LLC. p. 21. ISBN 9780403096107.
- ^ "Conference of New England Archaeology Newsletter, December 1985" (PDF). Retrieved October 27, 2016.