Stone Crusher

Mules pulled rail cars laden with stone from the quarry, and cables hauled them to a crusher that could handle 1,500 yards of stone each day. Working like an enormous grater, the crusher produced small stones and limestone powder that were carried out by conveyors. After 1920, washed-gravel roadbeds were preferred over crushed limestone. Soon the pumps ceased to run at this once-flourishing quarry, and it gradually filled with water, becoming a deep, serene lake. Only the pilings remain of the powerful stone crusher built in 1902, and they are usually submerged under about one foot of water.

Belgium, Wisconsin · United States