Ochee Spring Quarry Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Capace, Nancy. The Encyclopedia of Rhode Island. North American Book Dist LLC. 2001. 9780403096107. 21.
  2. Web site: Conference of New England Archaeology Newsletter, December 1985. 2016-10-27.