The Ark Traditional Geocache
OReviewer: Hi,
As the land owner says the cache is there without permission, I am forced to archive it. Please remove the cache so it doesn't become geo-trash. If you are able to obtain permission, please contact me with the GC code and if it meets the current guidelines, I may be able to unarchive it for you.
Thanks,
-O
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Quarryville, located on the borders of Providence, Eden, and East Drumore townships, was originally known as "Barr's Quarries," after land plotted out by Abram Barr. Barr, who had begun quarry operations in 1820, five years later laid out about 20 acres of land in quarry lots which he sold for $75 to $100 each to the predominantly Scots-Irish farmers in Drumore, Colerain and Little Britain townships to quarry in winter months. After it was quarried, the limestone was then burned in kilns to extract the lime to enrich the soil in the days before commercial fertilizers came into being. By 1858, more than 600,000 bushels of lime were burned and hauled from a dozen quarries in Quarryville and delivered throughout York and Chester counties, as well as Cecil and Harford counties in Maryland. Limestone quarrying was the dominant business for many years, until about 1860, when the use of commercial fertilizers became more widespread.
Barr lived in a great stone mansion built by his father, Martin Barr, that was known as "The Ark". Situated on a hill called "mount ararat" on the north end of Quarryville Borough, this large stone building was built of "barren stone" hauled from a nearby ridge in 1790. At the time it was built, the house was the grandest in the area, featuring two wide porches that ran the length of the house and walls more than two-feet thick.
There were no other businesses in Barr's Quarries until the mid-1830's when Jeremiah and Lewis Haines built a general store and residence and transferred their mercantile business from Darlington, MD, to Barr's Quarries. The house later became the Railroad Hotel
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