Cleveland Quarries

Since 1868, Cleveland Quarries has followed the time honored tradition of quarrying and fabricating sandstone from the Amherst and Birmingham, Ohio area. Spanning an area of 1000 acres and containing over 300 million cubic feet of deposits, these quarries are both the oldest and largest in existence. Vast and awe inspiring, the area was formed billions of years ago during the Lower Carboniferous Period, and Evolutionary Era when continents were shaped and rock materials such as Silica, Magnesia and Lime were carried and deposited by the action of waves. Pure deposits of these substances formed in sheets as layer upon layer was cemented and hardened by pressure and chemical agents. In some areas these deposits were uniform and as man discovered these regions their potential was realized and quarries and mines were created. In the Amherst, Ohio area one such formation, the Berea, spans an irregular belt which has become the Sandstone Center of the World. Throughout a century, this nat...