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Limestone quarry company

The Marble Cliff Quarry Co., is located in the community of San Margherita and operated the largest limestone quarry in the United States from its founding in 1913 until its sale in 1985.

In the early 1840s, quarry activities began in the area to mine a narrow belt of Columbus and Delaware limestone which stretched all the way from the Scioto River to the Olentangy River adjacent to Marble Cliff, Ohio. The Columbus formation stone was roughly 100 feet thick with the Delaware limestone deposit above at 16 to 35 feet thick. Limestone was mined through the simple process of drilling and blasting and resulted in either blocks or crushed stone of various sizes. The products were then sent to the nearby limestone markets where they were sold and used in construction or as flux to purify iron ore. In 1913, Marble Cliff Quarries Co. was founded and shortly consolidated quarrying activities with the merger of Casparis Stone, Scioto Stone, Kiefer Stone, and Woodruff and Pausch Stone. John W. Kaufman was named president of the company and H. J. Kaufman vice president.

In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons The northern section of the original quarry remained in operation by American Aggregates Co. In 2017, Wagenbrenner Development purchased a section of the former quarry, with the intention of remediating the site's brownfields to create a mixed use development and the region's 20th Metro Park. On November 30, 2021, the first phase of the 225 acre Quarry Trails Metro Park opened to the public.