Ochee Spring Quarry | |
Nearest City: | Johnston, Rhode Island |
Added: | May 5, 1978 |
Refnum: | 78000003 |
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.[1] 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 sizes. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England.[2]
The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.