A chunk mined by Indiana Limestone Company, founded in 1926, one of the foremost purveyors of this special stone. National Museum of Natural History The Hoosier State’s first commercial ...

Thus claimed the Bedford Stone Quarries Company in the early 1890s, at that time the world’s largest producers of Oolitic limestone. The stone for which Indiana became renowned exists mainly in ...

The Indiana limestone country is the narrow belt where ... Nancy Faust on her Chicago White Sox return after a 15-year absence: ‘I never expected a resurgence like this’ Nancy Faust on her ...

“The beauty of Indiana limestone is the stone they’re quarrying ... man-made crater, is brilliantly white and filled with fossilized remains of the cephalopods and other creatures that lived ...

S. are of limestone. More than 50% of the limestone comes from the great quarries of Indiana Limestone Co. Indiana limestone went into Washington’s new Department of Commerce Building ...

Limestone quarried from three Indiana counties is responsible for some of America's most impressive structures. It was used to build the Empire State Building, the Pentagon and the Indiana State ...

But anyone who has visited the Empire State Building, the Pentagon or the U.S. Capitol has seen the stately gray limestone that generations of Indiana stoneworkers have painstakingly pulled from ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana limestone quarry featured in the 1979 movie “Breaking Away” has been filled in following years of safety concerns. Sanders Quarry south of Bloomington was ...

Not so durable is Indiana Limestone Co. itself, which last week filed for bankruptcy and this week put out the word that it will lay off its entire 166-person workforce in Bloomington and Oolitic ...

The Indiana University Art Museum celebrates Limestone Month with four rare watercolor paintings by noted Hoosier artist, Otto Stark. His paintings focus on Indiana's limestone industry.

The owner of Indiana Limestone Co. has received court approval to hold an April auction to see whether there are any better offers for virtually all its assets than the $26 million bid by lender ...