Marblehead Quarry & Railroad

Preservation Group
Summer 2009 EMAIL EDITION NEWSLETTER

Dave Koran’s Response

after 5 years.
As with any organization comes an end. We formally dissolved as the entity of
The Marblehead Quarry & Railroad Preservation Group (MQRRPG) in September of
2005. Now almost 5 years later our website will no longer be hosted on the net after
October 26, 2009. In 1992 myself and others began to study the vast space of the
Marblehead Quarry. I believe I was drawn to the family connection to it from the start,
and my youngster days traveling the crushed stone roadways with my father in the early
to mid 1980’s.

At that time it seemed nearly impossible that one day the entire wasteland west of
the operations in Marblehead would be re-worked once more. When the final bricks were
demolished of the old hydrate plant, it became reality that all of the history left would be
gone. Little by little markers of history within the Marblehead Quarry would be razed.
When leaving our location of 818 West Main Street in the fall of 2005 I decided to that
we dissolve our workings and pack up the entire collection of pictures, records, and
documents that we held on the quarry and railroad history.

While nothing seems left to discover or explorer even at that time, I still felt a
desire to walk those crushed stone roads once more. Two years ago I wanted to look into
the possibility of beginning more research related to the quarry. This was from a
response that I received about some disclosed military projects that occurred on the
quarry property in the 1980’s, that in a way I could remember but was out of sight and
mind to the locals in the area. This did not amount to much except some government
connections to the Allied building located on Quarry Road and it was discovered in
political conversations and mudslinging in Washington during the 2004 elections. So
after this I believe there is nothing more that we can say on the history of the quarry and
railroad in Marblehead that was not already covered. END