Marble Industry | Encyclopedia of Alabama
Sylacauga Marble Operation, ca. 1930s The George Herd Family bought several quarries and established the first successful mining operation in the mid1830s, in Sylacauga, and sold the first quarried marble from the area in 1838. The business mostly shipped the marble in and around central Alabama. Tombstones were the primary use of the stone, but the business advertised a number of uses.