• Sunday-What'sUP May 27 - 03:53 pm

Last Sunday we featured the stone boat in Kearsarge, and Friday we explored the sandstone cliffs at Jacobsville. Today's Shoebox Memory is courtesy of Copperrange.org, from the late Kevin Musser's postcard collection, which links together the two previous scenes. A piece of these cliffs made it into the stone boat, and to many other notable structures in the Copper Country and throughout North America.

A nice slice of Jacobsville Santstone history is found here.

Kathryn Eckert's 'The SANDSTONE ARCHITECTURE of the Lake Superior Region' is a wonderful, somewhat obscure, hardbound book. It traces the mining and distribution of Jacobsville Sandstone around the nation.

How in the world did they move those columns of stone? I suppose you'll tell us later, Charlie.

My Grandfather John Wetton was the superintendent at both the Jacobsville and Hebbard Quarreys. His brother Sam Wetton built 2 homes from the sandstone in Hancock.Also my Grandmother Anne Wetton was the first Postmaster in Jacobsville. I can recall her telling how it was whole day trip by horse and buggy to Hancock.

Interesting stuff...I thought that I had heard that Nebraska's capital building was built of Jacobsville Sandstone, so I looked and from the Wikipedia link:
Several buildings in the Upper Peninsula[66] and across the United States incorporate Jacobsville Sandstone in their construction. In the Upper Peninsula, these buildings include The Calumet Theatre[67], Saint Ignatius Loyola Church,[68] and several buildings in the Quincy Street Historic District.[69] Elsewhere, the sandstone was used in the Tribune Building in Chicago (1872), the Germania Bank Building in St. Paul (1888–90), City Hall in Cincinnati (1888–93), the Chamber of Commerce in Detroit (1894–95), and the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.[70][42]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsville_sandstone

How about the C&H Pay Office between Ahmeek & Copper City?

According to my Gramma there was at least one building in London England that was destroyed during WW II that was built of Jacobsville Sandstone.