Colorado Lincoln Marble Blocks

Located along and above the east and west side of Yule Creek, from an elevation of 9,000 feet (2,700 m) to 9,500 feet (2,900 m), where five quarries, of which only one on the west side is in operation today. Those on the west, being the John Osgood quarry, (pit-type started in the early 1890s) and the present day quarry started in 1905 by the Colorado Yule Marble Company inside the mountain. The east side quarry, started in 1904 by the Strauss brothers, was quarried inside Whitehouse Mountain. Most marble quarries in the world today are pit-type operations, such as in Carrara, Italy.