Flint Ridge State Memorial


Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

A typical boulder at the site
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Nearest city	Brownsville, Ohio
Coordinates	39°59′25″N 82°15′36″W / 39.990322°N 82.260004°W / 39.990322; -82.260004
Area	250 acres (100 ha)
NRHP reference No.	70000505^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 10, 1970

Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road. Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is located on the site.

Flint is a variety of quartz and the flint on the ridge is within the Vanport Limestone Member of the Allegheny Formation of Pennsylvanian age.^[2]^[3]

Flint Ridge was an important source of flint and Native Americans extracted the flint from hundreds of quarries along the ridge.^[4] This "Ohio Flint" was traded across the eastern United States and has been found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and south around the Gulf of Mexico.^[5]

References

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Rice, C.L., Kosanke, R.M., and Henry, T.W., 1994, Revision of nomenclature and correlations of some Middle Pennsylvanian units in the northwestern part of the Appalachian basin, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 7-26.
^ DeLong, R. M., 1972, Bedrock Geology of the Flint Ridge Area, Licking and Muskingum Counties, Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations 84, color map with text.
^ "Ohio Historical Society: Flint Ridge". Archived from the original on December 27, 2010. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
^ "Uses of Flint - Tools, weapons, fire starters, gemstones". geology.com.

External links

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Media related to Flint Ridge State Memorial at Wikimedia Commons

Flint Ridge State Memorial - official site
FLINT - OHIO'S OFFICIAL GEMSTONE

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