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QUARRY,
TEXASWashington
County, Central Texas S
14 miles N of Brenham
Quarry is on Wolf Creek 1½ miles from Lake Somerville
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History
in a Pecan Shell
It derived its name from its stone quarries, the economic base of
its prosperity in the 1890s. By 1884 Quarry was a station on the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
In 1891 its post office opened with Ananias M. Conover as postmaster.
By 1896 Quarry had grown into a small distribution center with a justice
of the peace, a sheriff, a lawyer, two doctors, a hotel, and a Baptist
church.
Quarry commerce flourished briefly with cotton processing, the development
of quarries, and an influx of railroad employees. Commercial competition
from larger Gay Hill, in Washington County, and the decline of stone
quarrying in the area resulted in the rapid elimination of the commercial
and processing sectors in Quarry. The community's post office was
closed in 1905. Later in the twentieth century Quarry had several
railroad tie manufacturing factories. In the 1980s ranching was the
economic base of this community, in which the population was by then
predominantly black.
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