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    Postcard of Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, IN

  • Matthews Family
    Matthews Family

    Matthews family on Matthews Mansion lawn

  • McIlveen Portfolio
    McIlveen Portfolio

    Sample from Albert McIlveen's portfolio

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"Limestone people are by nature entrepreneurial. Their tendency is to produce a product, and let someone else write about it." Bill McDonald, A Short History of Indiana Limestone.

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Photographs, letters, newspaper articles, and limestone industry archives related to Matthews Brothers Stone Company, an Ellettsville, Indiana, limestone quarry operating 1862–1978. Digital collection also includes photos from other limestone companies and artists.

  • About
  • Profiles
  • Building a Nation: Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection
  • Chronology via Monroe County Timeline, including a Printer Friendly Version
  • Curriculum via Monroe County Limestone Heritage
 

Limestone Stories

  • A Short History of Indiana Limestone


  • Early History of Indiana Limestone


  •  A Factual and Pictorial Tour of Bloomington, Indiana's Limestone Architecture


  •  Then and Now


  • Cutters of Stone


  • Our Town. Bedford


  •  A Brief History


  • In Limestone Country


  •  Travels Through Urban Geology



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Audience: 
Teens, Adults
   
Categories: 
Local & Family History
   
Updated May 24, 2021

Downtown Library |  812-349-3050
303 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408

Ellettsville Branch |  812-876-1272
600 W.Temperance Street, Ellettsville, IN 47429

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