Industry Spotlight: Wolf Stone Cutting

This is an industry I've never seen before on the GNRR. Josh and I found it today when we stopped at the new gas station. They have cleared all the land around it and you can see it now.

This is a small marble cutting operation, long since abandoned. It appears that it had a rail siding at one time. The building is open and you can see inside. Once there were stone cutting machines here.

The outer gantry supports are covered with kudzu vines and the crane is missing. There is a very large door to the left which is where the track would have aligned.


Here is the office door and parking area. Jut to the right of this shot is an old pump house that Josh discovered. It still contains all the pumping equipment for water used for cooling the cutting operation, we think.



I have pictures from inside, but they are very dark. No machinery remains.


The back of the building has another smaller door and there are a few piles of rubble laying around.


The windows are dirty and hard to see through, but probably allowed in a lot of light back in their day. Now they are being shot out by someone.




Here is the office in the back. It has a marble foundation. Inside an old desk sits in the middle of the room, destroyed by water damage.



The sign on the building says "Wolf - " and something else we could not make out. The body of the building is corrugated steel.

An interesting find. If anyone knows more about it let us know!

Industry Spotlight: Erb Plastics

In Woodstock, just north of town is Erb Plastics. My mother worked for Mr. Erb when she was very young. These photos were shot on June 30, 2001. They make hard hats and other safety equipment.


This was a warm June day and the grass and trees were green. I like this company because of the colorful silos for the plastic resin pellets. They take a four bay covered hopper sporadically. Often the siding is empty as it is today.


This would be an easy model to build. I love the green grass.