Marble Cliff Quarry Co.

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The Marble Cliff Quarry Co., headquartered in Upper Arlington, Ohio, operated the country's largest limestone quarry from its opening in the mid-1800s until its sale in approximately 1985. The influential Kaufman family of the Columbus area owned and operated this 2,000-plus acre of property, plus other mines and quarries in the United States and Canada. The Columbus quarry stretched all the way from the Scioto River to the Olentangy River adjacent to Marble Cliff, Ohio. Such famous Columbus area landmarks as Ohio Stadium, the Ohio Statehouse, the LeVeque Tower, state and county airports and modern freeways were constructed from stone extracted from the quarry and built by Marble Cliff Quarry employees. Although the quarry, under the control of the Kaufman family, was sold in the 1980s to investors who later developed the land into tracts of residential and commercial property, the northern section of the quarry is still mined today.