Mulligan Quarry Building

Posted by MJ (Delaware, United States) on 5 April 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

M.C. Mulligan & Sons Quarry

In 1848, the brothers Francis, Patrick and Terence Mulligan founded the Mulligan family quarry. They quarried and burned limestone from the cliffs for fertilizer and sold crushed stone to bed the new network of railroads and paved roadways. After an 1891 fire destroyed Clinton's Main Street, the Mulligans prospered by supplying materials to help rebuild the town.