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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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1920s
Washington County map showing Quarry
(Above "S-H" in "W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N")
NW
of Brenham, NE of Burton
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