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What's in a name? Quarryville, Pennsylvania
 
Since I'm a Quarryville Realtor and have seen the now flooded quarries that sit not far from my house the name of the town has always seemed self evident. But there is a bit of history behind it. Abram Barr, son of Martin Barr, who built the “Ark” that I mentioned in a previous blog first recognized the important fact that Quarryville marked the lower limit of the limestone in Lancaster county. The less fertile land of the “Lower End” lacked a necessary element, lime. Barr quarried the limestone that was burned in stone kilns into lime with the then abundant chestnut timber.  
In 1825 Abram Barr laid out about twenty acres in lots of one-eighth of an acre each and these he sold to farmers to take out stone for their own use. They did this in the winter after all their other work was done. In order to be convenient to their work, about twenty good-sized log cabins were built and "Barr's Quarries” became quite a place. The lime was the making of the "Lower End"and the opening of new quarries began. Large kilns were erected and the quarrying of stone and burning of lime grew to ... more

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