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The Southern Marble Company Pipeline a.k.a. "The Ditch"
The Southern Marble Company can be seen in Land Lot 106, of District 4, in the 1903 Pickens County map. In the 1890s the Southern Marble Company (located where the Imerys Corporation is presently at on Hwy 53 in Marble Hill, Georgia, built a combination of a pipeline and channel for a gravity-fed water delivery system from nearly two miles north to their marble plant. The water would pass beneath Hwy 53 and shoot out from a small pipe to power a Pelton Wheel which operated t

Christopher Feldt
Aug 10, 20254 min read
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