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Below is a complete listing of all Ohio Historical Markers. To find a detailed marker listing including text, photographs, and locations, click on a county below. Our listing is updated by the markers program as new markers are installed and older markers are reported damaged or missing.

4-29 McDonald Stone Quarry

Side A: In 1849, each state in the Union was invited to furnish a block of native stone for the construction of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. Geologists selected stone from this quarry, then owned by Wilford McDonald, as typical of the best quality in Ohio. The dimensions of the limestone block used in the Washington Monument, which was cut and polished by Daniel Bunnell of Xenia, are 6 feet x 3 feet x 9 inches. The inscription on the block of stone reads as follows: The State of Ohio/ The Memory of Washington / and / The Union of the States / Sunto Perpetus
Side B: Same
Sponsors: Greene County Historical Society and The Ohio Historical Society
Address: Near 1446 Stone Road, 
Xenia vicinity, 
OH, 
45385
Location: At red barn just N of 1446 Stone Road
Latitude: 39.6403910
Longitude: -83.8843810