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Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries

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NRHP Reference #
  
75000903

Added to NRHP
  
12 May 1975

Area
  
3 ha

Location
  
Robinson Mill Road, Dublin, Maryland

The Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries, also known as Orr Prehistoric Steatite Quarry Archeological Site, is an archeological site located near Dublin, just south of Whiteford, Harford County, Maryland. The site includes evidence of the manufacture of vessels from boulders instead of from bedrock. This activity dated from 1700 to 1000 B.C.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries Wikipedia