Taylor Quarry

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Location: 1.7 miles east of Rock Springs.

This pegmatite is quarried on the west side of the creek, on Taylor's farm, for feldspar. It is said to have yielded some 10,000 tons of feldspar. Other flint veins also occur on the some farm.

About one and a half miles east from Rock Springs, on the edge of the serpentine, is the Taylor feldspar and flint quarry. This vein strikes northeast-southwest and has considerable width. The material is shipped to Trenton, New Jersey, and to Liverpool, Ohio. The quarries are idle at present.

(Bascom F.,   The Geology of the Crystalline Rocks of Cecil County, 1902.)

Two miles east of Rock Springs on William Taylor’s Farm is a quarry 150 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 25 feet deep that has been idle for years. The wall rock is a basic gneiss striking N. 40° E. The small amount of feldspar now exposed in the sides of the opening is a white semi-kaolinized material. (Maryland Geological Survey, 1928)