SANTA CRUZ — During the second half of the 19th century up until the early 1900s, lime production from limestone was one of Santa Cruz”s most important industries and was critical to the early ...

Any decent-size farm in the limestone belt would have a lime kiln. The lime deposits here extend generally southwest to northeast through the county's middle. Farmers used hand-cut stone to build the ...

Autumn marks the end of Pennsylvania's growing season, but it does not mean that a farmer's work is done. For more than two centuries, one of the most important autumn chores for Monroe County farmers ...

SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — Squatting atop a knoll and tucked within a thicket of trees and brush are a modest pair of industrial relics that managed an unusual feat: quietly surviving a developer’s ...

WORK begins this week to save rare and endangered lime kilns at a former North-East quarry. Marsden Lime Kilns are a well-known local landmark and form part of a huge industrial structure associated ...

Ken Miller has been searching for and photographing the extant lime kilns of Lancaster County for decades. He always said he was going to write a book about them. He finally has done that. The result ...