Blue Ridge Marble Company

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A train arrives at the Blue Ridge Marble Company about 1910. Later renamed Georgia Marble, the company was active in Cherokee and Pickens counties during the growth of the marble industry between the arrival of the railroads in the 1880s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
pck077-82a.

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Blue Ridge Marble Company

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