View of the Central Cistern in Vastine Hollow, Shawnee Wilderness Area, Adams County, Ohio (24 November 2012).
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Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.
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Vastine Hollow Freestone Quarries
During the second-half of the nineteenth century, Vastine and other hollows of Lower Twin Creek were the center of a major stone quarry industry. Here workers for various firms, including John Mueller's Buena Vista Freestone Company, quarried…