Hummelstown Brownstone Quarries

High quality brownstone was quarried near here 1863-1929, and sold across the nation as a preferred masonry material of builders. The Hummelstown Brownstone Company, founded by Allen Walton, employed immigrant skilled stonecutters and laborers in its quarries.

Marker is on 104 E. Main Street near Near Water Street, on the right.

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