Margaretta Township near Castalia in Erie County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

The Castalia Quarry MetroPark

Photographed by Craig Doda, November 28, 2024

1. The Castalia Quarry MetroPark Marker

Inscription. The Castalia Quarry MetroPark originally operated as the Wagner Stone Company's Quarry #5, beginning in the early 1870s, as a limestone quarry. From 1870-1929, the quarried limestone was primarily used as shoreline rip-rap, in glass making, railroad ballast, and other general building purposes. Early quarry operations utilized horses, steam engines, and grueling manual labor to blast the stone and carry it up to the quarry ridge where a series of crushers broke up the stone. It was then delivered by wagon or railroad.

In 1929, the Great Depression ended quarrying activity in Quarry #5, but when construction began on the Ohio Turnpike in 1954, work restarted with upgraded machinery. The foundations of both the Edison and Bay Bridges used stone from the quarry. The quarry was permanently closed when major construction projects were completed by the mid 1960s.

In 1987, Wagner Quarries donated part of the quarried property to Erie MetroParks, and Erie MetroParks purchased the remaining property to create the Castalia Quarry MetroPark.

Erected by Erie MetroParks.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Natural Resources • Parks & Recreational Areas. A significant historical year for this entry is 1929.

Location. 41° 23.384′ N, 82°

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49.698′ W. Marker is near Castalia, Ohio, in Erie County. It is in Margaretta Township. It can be reached from the intersection of Sandusky-Clyde Road (Ohio Route 101) and Herr Road, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 8312 OH-101, Castalia OH 44824, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is on Ohio’s Lake Erie Shore

and in the Western Reserve.

It is also in the American Midwest,

on the Great Lakes,

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Snow's Grist Mill (approx. 1.2 miles away); Castalia Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.3 miles away); a different marker also named Castalia Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.4 miles away); SFC Charles L. Adkins (approx. 1.4 miles away); Scott Gast (approx. 1.4 miles away); Castalia Cemetery Veterans Memorial (approx. 1½ miles away); Margaretta Twp. Civil War Monument (approx. 1½ miles away); Sandusky (approx. 4.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Castalia.

Photographed by Craig Doda, November 28, 2024

2. The Castalia Quarry MetroPark Marker

The Castalia Quarry MetroPark image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Craig Doda, November 28, 2024

3. The Castalia Quarry MetroPark

Credits. This page was last revised on December 30, 2024. It was originally submitted on December 5, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 690 times since then and 54 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on December 5, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.