This material is part of the text from history display at The Fiborn Karst Preserve featuring many photographs, documents and descriptions detailing the history of Fiborn Qaurry.

• The Chase Osborn Papers in The Michigan Historical Collection, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi.
• The State of Michigan Archives, Lansing, Mi.
• Longyear Research Library, Marquette, Mi.
• Eastern upper peninsula regional newspapers, as collected on microfilm at the Michigan State Library, Lansing, Mi.
• Several dozen interviews with former residents and workers of Fiborn Quarry and their families, as conducted, recorded, transcribed and archived by the Michigan Karst Conservancy's Fiborn History Project.
• Historic records of Algoma Steel, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada.

E-Mail   mike@speleobooks.com

Written by Mike Warner, Michigan Karst Conservancy June, 1992

Revised December 1994 (text)

Revised June 1996 & October 1996.  (graphic version)

Index to The History Of Fiborn Quarry
1. Presenting Fiborn Quarry's History
2. Fiborn Quarry's History
3. Osborn And The Soo
4. Clergue and Carbide
5. The Draw Of Limestone
6. Affairs Of Property
7. The Big Bang
8. Caves Of Fiborn
9. A Series Of Letters
10. Transition
11. Fiborn Today  -  Under Construction