A child turns a rougly carved scrap of marble into a playhouse in the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado. Such remnants of various sizes and quality can be seen throughout the tiny town Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Hig

Blocks and scraps of white marble line the winding mountain road leading to the Colorado Stone Quarries pit high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yul

A worker power washes a multi-ton, freshly quarried block of white marble at the processing facility owned by Colorado Stone Quarries in the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Founded in 1899, Marble lay belo

Columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town of Marble in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand at what is now a U.S. National Historic Site Physical description:. Not

John Hines takes a break from his work inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not fo

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only road between Marble and Crested Butte Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography

Sign for the Marble National Historic Site in Marble, Colorado Nearby, columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand Physical description

The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout streams, in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains above the town of Marble. The white stones on the riverbank are, in fact, scraps of marble from the Colorado Marble Quarry, where high-quality white marble, once a staple of