Soapstone Ridge

	Soapstone Ridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Atlanta, Georgia
NRHP reference No.	73002138
Added to NRHP	May 7, 1973

Soapstone Ridge is a mafic-ultramafic geological complex located in the Piedmont region, south-east of Atlanta, Georgia on a 25-square-mile (65 km²) area in DeKalb County and neighboring Fulton and Clayton Counties.

The ridge was named from its deposits of metapyroxenite, which early settlers wrongly believed was soapstone.^[2] Many archaeological sites, including Late Archaic quarry sites dated between 600 BCE and 1500 BCE, occur on Soapstone Ridge.^[3]^[4] At least 17 quarry sites and 23 workshops sites have been located on Soapstone Ridge.^[5]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 208. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
^ Freeman, David B.(1997). Carved in Stone: the History of Stone Mountain. Mercer University Press, ISBN 0-86554-547-2
^ Elliott, Daniel T. 1986. The Live Oak Soapstone Quarry, Dekalb County, Georgia. Garrow & Associates, Inc., Atlanta. Submitted to Waste Management of Georgia, Inc., Marietta, Georgia, 124 pages.
^ Elliott, Daniel Thornton. 1980. Soapstone Use in the Wallace Reservoir: A Tool for Interpreting Prehistory., Unpublished Master's thesis. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[2] Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 208. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.

[3] Freeman, David B.(1997). Carved in Stone: the History of Stone Mountain. Mercer University Press, ISBN 0-86554-547-2

[4] Elliott, Daniel T. 1986. The Live Oak Soapstone Quarry, Dekalb County, Georgia. Garrow & Associates, Inc., Atlanta. Submitted to Waste Management of Georgia, Inc., Marietta, Georgia, 124 pages.

[5] Elliott, Daniel Thornton. 1980. Soapstone Use in the Wallace Reservoir: A Tool for Interpreting Prehistory., Unpublished Master's thesis. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

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