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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28VP_little-quarry_Belgium-WI.html
In the late 1800s, settlers used a pot kiln to fire limestone from Little Quarry, which is still visible in the woods as a round depression about 6 feet deep and 2,700 square feet in area. By the early 1900s the successful Lake Shore Stone Company…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28V6_a-reminder-of-days-past_Belgium-WI.html
Long after the Lake Shore Stone Company's quarrying operation had ceased, and the company town houses had been relocated to the Village of Belgium, an industrial chimmney remained on this site. For many years it was the sole reminder of the early …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28UZ_pot-kiln_Belgium-WI.html
The round structure on the hill is a pot kiln where settlers burned limestone in the late 1800s. This burning changed raw limestone into lime for use as mortar to build fireplaces and fill chinks in log houses and to apply to farm fields as crop f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28U1_from-booming-business-to-quiet-park_Belgium-WI.html
The quiet, peaceful scene at Harrington Beach State Park contrasts sharply with its former life as a quarry and company town. You can just imagine the noise as limestone was blasted loose, hauled in steel cars by mules, pulled by cable along incli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SW_water-transport_Belgium-WI.html
Only fragments remain of a pier that once extended from this point more than 700 feet into Lake Michigan. Rail cars, loaded with limestone from a hopper at the crusher house, ran along the top of the pier about 50 feet above the water. Workers fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SV_excess-soil_Belgium-WI.html
Workers removed the overburden of soil to expose the limestone before quarrying could begin. They loaded the debris into side dump-cars which "donkey engines" pulled along rails toward the lake. En route, workers spread the dirt out beside the tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28ST_limestone_Belgium-WI.html
Millions of years ago, Wisconsin was covered by a vast, shallow inland sea, teeming with marine life. Over time, the shells of animals such as gastropods and corals became fossilized in limestone deposits. Twelve thousand years ago during the last…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SQ_a-unique-dinner-bell_Belgium-WI.html
Look at the neat, machine-drilled blasting hole in this rock. Each day at noon and again in the evening as workers departed the quarry, they set off black powder or dynamite placed into holes in the rock. When they returned, workers could dig o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28S6_the-krier-house_Belgium-WI.html
Sebastian "Bus" Krier, Lake Shore Stone Company foreman, lived on this scenic spot in a handsome two-story house with a magnificent view of Lake Michigan. This comfortable home presented quite a contrast to the small, box-like houses of most compa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QW_murder_Belgium-WI.html
Dominic Manna lived in a shack or cave in the side of this hill, even though he was reported to have had more money than most of his fellow quarry workers. He ate his meals at the home of fellow worker August Falcineli, the company's mule driver. …
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