Flint Ridge State Memorial Explained

Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve
Nearest City:	Brownsville, Ohio
Coordinates:	39.9903°N -82.26°W
Added:	November 10, 1970
Refnum:	70000505

Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about 3miles north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road. Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is located on the site.

Flint is a variety of quartz and the flint on the ridge is within the Vanport Limestone Member of the Allegheny Formation of Pennsylvanian age.^{[1] [2]}

Flint Ridge was an important source of flint and Native Americans extracted the flint from hundreds of quarries along the ridge.^[3] This "Ohio Flint" was traded across the eastern United States and has been found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and south around the Gulf of Mexico.^[4]

External links

• Flint Ridge State Memorial - official site
• FLINT - OHIO'S OFFICIAL GEMSTONE

Notes and References

1. Rice, C.L., Kosanke, R.M., and Henry, T.W., 1994, Revision of nomenclature and correlations of some Middle Pennsylvanian units in the northwestern part of the Appalachian basin, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 7-26.
2. DeLong, R. M., 1972, Bedrock Geology of the Flint Ridge Area, Licking and Muskingum Counties, Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations 84, color map with text.
3. Web site: Ohio Historical Society: Flint Ridge . 2010-12-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101227142256/http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/c01/index.shtml . 2010-12-27 . dead .
4. Web site: Uses of Flint - Tools, weapons, fire starters, gemstones. geology.com.