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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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