New Texas Barrens

Location: Happy Hollow Road, Fulton township

The New Texas Barrens contains a number of small exploratory pits and some larger pits and trenches (see photographs below) as well as 2 quarries. There are no reports of any production of ore or stone. The larger pits and trenches seem to be investigating magnesite deposits. The quarries may have been sources of serpentine rock.

Images

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Grassland #18 north pit looking NE

Grassland #18, north pit looking SW

Grassland #18, south pit looking NW

Grassland #18, south pit looking SE

Grassland #21, south trench looking north

Grassland #21, north trench looking north

Quarry #2, looking south

Grassland #21, north trench looking north

Photographs by Mike Bertram, 2001, and 2014.