The Georgia Marble Company was founded in 1884 by Samuel Tate. Tate leased out all the land in Pickens County, Georgia, which contained rich Georgia marble. Pickens County has a vein …

Georgia Marble’s structure is purely crystalline with no stratification and only traces of foreign material. The myriad crystals that distinguish Georgia Marble as “the stone that sparkles” also …

Aug 17, 2018 · In 1884, Samuel Tate founded the Georgia Marble Company. The company’s mines contained some of the best quality marble, and almost every type of marble found in the …

Pickens County Georgia has produced marble for the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, as well as the local Tate House and more!

It comes from the hills of Georgia and is brilliant white. The thin, closely-packed and homogenous grain structure of this North American marble gives superior strength and resistance, which …

Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble, is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia, United States. [1] It is coarse-grained, displays a white or gray background …

Jun 1, 2007 · Marble, a metamorphosed limestone prized for its hardness and variety, is quarried in north Georgia near Tate, in Pickens County. This marble has been used extensively for …

Plates of tectonic rock collided and compressed those organisms to form the gorgeous and elegant Georgia Marble we know today. The vein of stone extended five to seven miles long, a …

Open and operational since 1830, the Georgia Marble Quarry, located in Tate, GA., is one of the US’ oldest and most widely used domestic natural stones. The thin, closely-packed and …

The Story of Georgia Marble began about 600 million years ago at the bottom of a sea that covered most of what is now the forested slopes of the North Georgia Blue Ridge. Over eons, …