The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The original name of the Marble community is Marble Springs. The name was later shortened to Marble with the baptist church on Marble Road still bearing the original name. Marble got its name from various marble quarries in the community. The vast majority of all marble quarried in the communty was used as cemetery headstones across nine states. The quarries opened in 1902 and produced Regal Blue and Confederate Gray shades which were shipped on the Southern Railway's Murphy Branch. The Cherokee County Courthouse, built in 1926, was the first building made of marble from the community. It is one of few county courthouses in the U.S. constructed entirely of marble. Marble from the community was also used to build Fontana Dam, the tallest dam in the Eastern United States and the fourth-tallest dam in the world at the time of its construction. By 1934, the Columbia Marble Company in Marble…
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marble’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Marble is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Marble has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is First Baptist Church in Andrews, 5.9 miles away.
Marble and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
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