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Gray's quarry, New Texas (Lyles Post Office), Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USAi
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Gray's quarryQuarry
New Texas (Lyles Post Office)Village
Fulton TownshipTownship
Lancaster CountyCounty
PennsylvaniaState
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
39° 44' 29'' North , 76° 11' 7'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Wakefield609 (2017)3.6km
Little Britain372 (2017)7.2km
Darlington409 (2011)11.5km
Rising Sun2,859 (2017)11.5km
Delta724 (2017)12.2km
Mindat Locality ID:
307387
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:307387:5
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Uriah Gray's Farm


Although much less information is available concerning the magnesite workings in Lancaster County, Pa., they appear to have been of considerable size, at least during the late 1820's and the 1830's and probably longer. The most productive locality, operated by McKim, Sims and Co., of Baltimore, had produced 400 or 500 tons of magnesite by 1828 (Carpenter, 1828, p. 10). This locality is probably the Boyce (Spence) farm, in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pa. (loc. 93, pi. 41), reported by Frazer (1880, p. 179) to have produced considerable quantities of magnesite. Magnesite was also reported (Frazer, 1880, p. 97) to be abundant at a large quarry on Uriah Gray's farm, south of Spence's farm (loc. 94, pi. 41).

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