How to Identify Stone Types for Gravestones with 200 year old quarry visit! By a Stone Carver

[@Whittdocs]

Great video!

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you so much sir!

[@Troy-Echo]

I could recognize several on sight, but my knowledge was fairly basic. Thank you for going into more depth. It's amazing and sad how few people visit cemeteries and take care of their family's markers. Many are marred or knocked loose from careless mowing, where most could be cleaned with just water and a soft brush. I saw a video where a lawn care company was contracted to mow cemeteries and the owner put those foam pool noodles on the sides of the mower decks, and he docked the employees pay if they returned with damaged pool noodles. I wish more companies took this much care in their work.

[@pumpkintown]

Amen

[@ColoradoMartini]

I'm so glad that I found your channel. I am a Grave Wanderer myself. I really enjoyed your video and I'm looking forward to watching others.

[@pumpkintown]

Colorado thank you! Please subscribe and hit the bell icon! I hope to post more soon!

[@craigroberts3982]

Quite fascinating.

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you kindly for watching! Please subscribe!

[@ginnymiller2448]

Hey great video, very interesting! I am originally from Northern California. There are a lot of limestone quarries in those parts, hence a lot of old limestone gravestones from the mid to late 1800's. Unfortunately, time and Mother Nature has not been so nice to many of these antique gravestones, as it is very common to find old limestone markers that are either broken or so melted away from the elements that they are near impossible to read. After watching your video, out of curiosity I looked at photos I have taken of some of my ancestors' grave markers, and was surprised to find that there are ones who passed around the turn of the century that have what looks like granite markers. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, as granite is also very common in California. But I am grateful the family had the forethought and means to afford what was probably a very new and expensive thing for the time, as these stones still look brand new today, as if they were carved only yesterday. Anyway, your videos are awesome, I subscribed. Keep up the great work!

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you kindly! Yes Granite began to takeover between 1900- 1920 and has been king ever since! Limestone is certainly not a good gravestone material but I don’t know that they would have known that so much back then, and also they used what they had available to them. Thanks for the subscribe!

[@AGAwesome]

Fascinating video about a topic I knew nothing about. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you for watching, please subscribe!

[@gcgopro6912]

Great video, informative no dire music!

[@pumpkintown]

Nothing worse than dire music to spoil the mood!

[@Miss_Loving]

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[@danahyatt5760]

Thank you for doing this video David. Was the section on soapstone done at Soapstone Baptist Church in Pickens, SC?

[@Old52Guy]

Brilliant! Thank you.

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you brother

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Thank you!

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you! Please subscribe

[@DonegreaghConnemaras]

I wonder if anyone makes ceramic headstones ? It would take a very large kiln to fire them, but considering how old pottery lasts in an archaeological context, it would certainly last a long while ! Very interesting video, David :-)

[@pumpkintown]

I would imagine they would be very brittle in case hit by a tree limb but so is almost any stone. Good question

[@DonegreaghConnemaras]

@@pumpkintown Thank you. God Bless.

[@nancycrayton2738]

I would never have associated those huge stones with the soap stones I've seen in cemeteries. I enjoy your posts. I learn a lot every time. But why do they call them soap stones?

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you Nancy! I am not sure why they call them soap stones other than the decor that they are so soft they carve like soap. The old timers around here called it talcose rock because it is about 50% talc in the stone! After I carve soapstone my hands feel nice and smooth!

[@gogoghoul8488]

14:40 "we hope to see you out at the cementary"😁😄🥰

[@pumpkintown]

GoGoGhoul I'm glad you liked that! Where else are we gravestone nerds to be found , right?!

[@azarahwagner2749]

Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 I am curious what stone is best for extreme environment. It doesn’t get as cold as it used to here in north eastern Ontario Canada but we have more precipitation than before .

[@pumpkintown]

Azarah, great question. I recommend Granite for you climate or a nice thick slate #2 choice

[@davidwalker2781]

Would you by chance be located anywhere near the Boston / Salem Mass. areas? or Lebanon N.H. area.??

[@pumpkintown]

No sir, I am in South Carolina. I have gravestones in NH and CT though!

[@davidwalker2781]

Ok. Visited some OLD family gravestones recently. And an old cousin had actually Replaced a husband & wife gravestons (that had been broken and fallen down) with a new joint gravestone for the husband & wife. However, he still Has The 2 Gravestones (that are still broken in 3 pieces) at his house. *Have you ever seen any crafty ideas to DO with old, readable, but broken gravestones (after they've been replaced)??

[@NIGHTOWL-jf9zt]

Wonderful Talent. I would be afraid of cracking it. At 11:45 I see what appear to be Numbers scratched on the surface, Any Idea what those are for? Could they be more recent or from when this stone was quarried? Just curious.

[@pumpkintown]

Could be locals just practicing their amateur carving skills, I didn't see it but will go back and check.

[@teenaleer6447]

👍

[@pumpkintown]

Thank you!

[@SteampunkGroove_John3.16]

"hey" from north Florida. Is the quarry open to folks coming out to gather a bit of stone for themselves?

[@pumpkintown]

No as there is so little left now they have erected signs to disallow any removal. What is left is left for educational purposes. Thanks for asking though!

[@SteampunkGroove_John3.16]

@@pumpkintown ~thank you for replying. It was only a curious inquiry.

[@dbc1702]

I can assure you fella, nobody is dying to know what type of stone it is.

[@pumpkintown]

Nobody is dying to know but some are interested. Maybe not you, but 6,800 people have been interested. That’s enough to justify the video methinks.