AIPG FIELD TRIP - ELEPHANTS • NATURAL WATER PARK • MONUMENTS Just beyond Elephant Rocks State Park lies the historic
Graniteville quarry district, where Missouri Red granite was first quarried in 1869. This deep red Graniteville Granite supplied stone for the Eads Bridge, St. Louis levee paving blocks, and the columns of Missouri’s Governor’s Mansion. Pictured below: Graniteville Granite with drill holes and entry to the Missouri Red Quarries facility featuring the red granite, and pictured right: the quarry wall at the facility where monuments are made.
Learn more about Graniteville Granite and Quarries:
Missouri DNR – Granite overview (includes Graniteville & Sheahan quarries) Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (2020). Granite (PUB2906). Missouri Geological Survey.
https://dnr.mo.gov/document-search/granite- pub2906/pub2906.
Missouri State Parks – Cultural history of Elephant Rocks / oldest Graniteville quarry (1869, Eads Bridge, paving blocks) Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (n.d.). Cultural history – Elephant Rocks State Park. Missouri State Parks.
https://mostateparks.com/basic-page/ cultural-history-elephant-rock.
Missouri DNR brochure – Graniteville quarry, “Missouri Red,” Eads Bridge, St. Louis streets, Governor’s Mansion columns Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (2016). Elephant Rocks State Park (PUB0683). Missouri Geological Survey.
https://dnr.mo.gov/print/ document-search/pub0683.
NOTE: The Missouri Red Quarries are a privately owned and operated facility. Please
note that for any field trip where you would like to access private property, permission from the property owner and any terms for access shall be requested and respected.
Historic quarry industry description – first exten- sive granite quarry at Graniteville (1869), Schneider Granite Co. Branner, J. C. (1904). The quarrying industry of Missouri (excerpt on Graniteville quarries). In Report of the Geological Survey of Missouri (reproduced by Quarries and Beyond). https://quarriesand-
beyond.org/states/mo/mo-quarrying_indust_ mo_1904_3.html.
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