Job S. Pugh Flint Quarry

Location: East Nottingham. On Breou's 1883 atlas Job Pugh is shown as owning a 133 acres tract lying on both sides of the East Nottingham - Elk township line and also straddling Jordan Creek.

Newspaper Clippings

Daily Local News
28th July 1898

A Lancaster party has taken out a car load of flint from the deposit on Job. S. Pugh’s farm, East Nottingham. It is of good quality. The car awaits shipment.

The flint quarry on Mrs. J. R. Dickey’s farm, East Nottingham, continues to be worked and large shipments of the mineral are made every few days to Trenton, N. J. Many tons have been hauled here for shipment since operations began.

Daily Local News
13th September 1900

Job S. Pugh, of Oxford, has leased for five years the flint quarry on his farm in East Nottingham to A.C. Johnson of Baltimore. Mr. Johnson’s workmen began operating on the property on Monday. The flint will be taken to Oxford and then shipped by rail to Elkton, where it will be used in the purification of vitriol.