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Description
This view shows the Ulmer Quarry and the Pleasant Street Bridge at the south end of the quarries along Old County Road, in Rockland near the Thomaston line. The quarry workers are breaking the limestone into head-sized pieces, by hand, and loading them into the horse-drawn teamster wagons to be hauled to the kilns along the Rockland Harbor.
About This Item
- Title: Ulmer Quarry and the Pleasant Street bridge, Rockland, ca. 1875
- Creator: James P. Armbrust
- Creation Date: circa 1875
- Subject Date: circa 1875
- Location: Rockland, Knox County, ME
- Media: Stereograph
- Dimensions: 11.5 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: 2010.4.192
- Collection: Stereo Views
- Object Type: Image
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- Limestone quarrying--Maine--Rockland
- Lime industry--Maine--Rockland
- Laborers--Maine--Rockland
- Carts & wagons--Maine--Rockland
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Rockland Historical SocietyP.O. Box 1331, 80 Union Street, Rockland, ME 04841
(207) 594-6193
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