Samuel Dickey Flint Quarry
Location: East Nottingham. The Rev. Samuel Dickey is shown on Breou’s 1883 atlas as owning 202 acres directly east of Oxford. Samuel Dickey died in 1894.
Newspaper Clippings
Daily Local News
16th January 1873
Flint and Spar – White flint, of the real gold bearing North Carolina Quartz, is to be found in quantity on the farm of Mr. Samuel Dickey, in East Nottingham township. In the woods of the property huge rocks of it may be seen, and this ridge is a part and parcel of a ridge on the Susquehanna at Conowingo. Time may develop a want for this mineral, which may at some future day cause mills to be erected for the purpose of crushing the quartz. We hope so!
Daily Local News
4th March 1897
Mrs. J. R. Dickey of Oxford has leased the flint deposits on her East Nottingham farm to Messrs. Lee and McCann of Harford county, Maryland. They have shipped a car of the flint to Trenton, N.J. where it is manufactured into whiteware. Advices received are favorable as to the quality of the flint and the operators of the deposit will develop it. The body of stone is extensive.
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.
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