Title:

Slate Quarry and Mills

Date:: 1907
Description:: A caption at the top of the historic image reads, "Slate Quarry and Mills, Fair Haven, Vermont." The post card is hand colored. The image shows a view of a large pile of slate stacked in the foreground. The slate stacks well and breaks into long, flat pieces because the minerals in it are aligned by weak metamorphism (heat and pressure). It started as a muddy sedimentary rock. There are two buildings. One is broad and the other more narrow with a smoke stack. There is grass in the right foreground and a forest in the background of the image.

Filename:: LS00684_000.jpg
Size:: 2124 x 1365 pixels; 2261203 bytes
Original Filename:: 2083SLATEQUARRY.JPG
Keywords:: Boulders; Buildings; Chimneys; Conifers; Culture; Deciduous; Earth Materials; Forests and Plants; Geology; Grassland plants; Hills; Historic mines; Human Activity; Human Constructs; Industrial buildings; Landforms; Landscapes; Living Things; Men; Mines and mineral resources; Nature; People; Plants; Quarries and quarrying; Rocks; Rocks,Sedimentary; Rural; Season; Sediments (Geology); Slate; Slate industry; Summer; Time; Trees; Wooden-frame buildings; Work;
Source:: Private Collection
Submitted By:: Jens Hilke
Submitted On:: 2004-01-08
Original Media:: Postcard
Relative Dating Rationale:: Mailed in 1907. Postcard.
Times viewed:: 1512

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