Oh look – something else abandoned

This time an old quarry up in the White Mountains in North Conway.  It was collectively known as the Redstone Quarry and had several faces and cutting operations.  The area is huge and I needed many more hours to shoot there to get all of it.  Up until the late 1940s it was an active business with hundreds of skilled workers and its own boarding house not far away.  Now both the quarry and the boarding house are abandoned and falling to pieces.

Here are some of the rough columns it produced along with one of my photographer buddies –

The stones were turned on enormous steam-powered lathes like this one –

Here’s a detail of one that was outside of the falling-down house (I LOVE the snow) –

And the rock face itself all frozen over –

In the upper left you can see some of the guide wires that made up the derrick used to hoist the blocks off the face.  It was powered by a huge steam-engine in a building next to the quarry.  Here’s the top of the building – now collapsed –

The sunset was pretty good from the top of an enormous slag pile –

There are more shots in my Abandoned Quarry Set and here on this blog post written by my host and guide here in the quarry.