Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries

Address Restricted, Whiteford, Maryland. County/parish: Harford.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 12, 1975. NRIS 75000903.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Orr Prehistoric Steatite Quarry Archeological Site

From Wikipedia:

Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries

The Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries, also known as Orr Prehistoric Steatite Quarry Archeological Site, is an archeological site located near Dublin, just south of Whiteford, Harford County, Maryland. The site includes evidence of the manufacture of vessels from boulders instead of from bedrock. This activity dated from 1700 to 1000 B.C.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

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