Carter, Reynolds, & Griest Serpentine Quarry


Location: West Nottingham


Newspaper Clippings

Daily Local News
21st July 1875


Carter, Reynolds, Griest & Co., are now shipping stone of fine quality from their serpentine quarries in West Nottingham, to Philadelphia, to be used in the front of the new Orphan Asylum on Broad St.

Oxford Press
18th October 1876


Nottingham Serpentine at the Centennial – Messrs. Carter & Reynolds, of Rising Sun, Md., have on exhibition at the Centennial this week some specimen blocks of serpentine stone from their quarries in West Nottingham township, Chester county. They will give on Maryland Day, Thursday, an exhibition of the facility with which this stone can be cut when fresh from the quarries. The cutting will be done at the sawmill annex of the Main Building by the Diamond Circular Saw of Branch, Crook, and Co.

A block of this stone has been prepared by one of our marble cutters, George E. Jones, to ornament the exhibition by Carter & Reynolds. Mr. Jones has cut the coat of arms of the State of Pennsylvania on the face of the stone, bringing out in full relief the eagle, horses, shield, plows etc., over which is represented the old Federal arch and on the ribbon underneath the name of the quarries. This work was executed in a very artistic manner, reflecting credit upon the artist. It will be the cap-stone of a column of the serpentine at the exhibition.