March 2023
Time for a review
14/03/23 10:06 Filed in: Plan/Design
Time has past, things have changed. It may be a good time to get reaquainted with the project.
Alberene Stone, Schuyler, Va. - Google Earth
What was the Davis-Murdoch Stone Company?
Davis-Murdoch was bare, unpainted cinder blocks and stone slabs, rusted corrugated metal, old drums, broken pallets, cinder piles, broom sedge, scrub cedars and gum trees. The smell of coal smoke and heavy lube oil. Tan, rust, gray. Not well marked, very easy to miss.
Where was the Davis-Murdoch Stone Company?
Davis-Murdoch was somewhere in a region bounded roughly by Bremo Bluff to the east, Gladstone to the south, Piney River to the west, and North Garden to the north.
What remains of the Davis-Murdoch Stone Company today?
A general impression of Davis-Murdoch can be developed by visiting:- Alberene
- Arvonia and Bridgeport
- Bremo and New Canton
- Cartersville
- Cohasset
- Columbia
- Dilwyn
- Esmont
- Gladstone
- James River State Park
- Lovingston
- Norwood
- Schuyler
- Scottsville
Is there information available related to Davis-Murdoch?
Operations like Davis-Murdoch are referred to in:- Heartbeats of Nelson, Paul Saunders
- Soapstone Shortlines, Garth Groff
- Alberene Stone reprints, Kierk Ashmore-Sorensen
- Trade publications from the 1920s related to the stone and quarry business, Google Books