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

High Rocky Mountain View along an alpine road above the town of Marble, and below what is now (except for a handful of summer residents) the old mining ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmi

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

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road from the town of Marble in the Crystal River Valley up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmi

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

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

View of a Rocky Mountain peak and meadow from a precipitous, rock-strewn road that snakes from the town of Marble up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photo

View of the rushing Crystal River from a precipitous, rock-strewn road that snakes from the town of Marble up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography

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