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Ochee Spring Quarry

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NRHP Reference #
  
78000003

Nearest city
  
Johnston

Added to NRHP
  
5 May 1978

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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. 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 size. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England.

The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Ochee Spring Quarry Wikipedia