Palmer Divide Research

Madge Quarry

Mines and quarriesHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

Rhyolite quarry on a D&RG spur south of Castle Rock; Scott also marks O'Brien Quarry (spur 1880-1905) and Hathaway nearby.

Where it was

'Madge Quarry (X)': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 23, T8S R67W, 'Est. by 1916. RR stop on D&RGW. 5 mi S of Castle Rock.'; this point is 0.29 mile from that section's center.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

See it on the map

Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Madge Quarry?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.