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Endless Mountain Stone Company was established in 1976 and found its
success specializing in the highest quality Bluestone Products in the industry
at the fairest prices.
We want you to know, that tradition remains in the forefront of our philosophy.
As a second generation, family owned and operated business; our commitment
to our employees, community, and our customers remains paramount.
Our Mission…
To provide exceptional service and products that will meet or exceed customers'
expectations.
To be innovative in our approach, follow principles of integrity and be a model of
excellence.
To develop a professional work force that is highly committed.
To develop a strategic partnership with our suppliers to provide the best in
Bluestone products and services that the industry can offer.
To provide a safe working environment.
To be actively involved in the community.
Robert Coleman Owner of Endless Mountain Stone
2004 President of the Pennsylvania Bluestone Association.
2002 Holmes Safety Association Pennsylvania Council Award 0.00 Incidence
Rate
2001 Holmes Safety Association Pennsylvania Council Award 0.00 Incidence
Rate
1999 Business of the Year from The Northern Tier Regional Planning and
Development Commission
success specializing in the highest quality Bluestone Products in the industry
at the fairest prices.
We want you to know, that tradition remains in the forefront of our philosophy.
As a second generation, family owned and operated business; our commitment
to our employees, community, and our customers remains paramount.
Our Mission…
To provide exceptional service and products that will meet or exceed customers'
expectations.
To be innovative in our approach, follow principles of integrity and be a model of
excellence.
To develop a professional work force that is highly committed.
To develop a strategic partnership with our suppliers to provide the best in
Bluestone products and services that the industry can offer.
To provide a safe working environment.
To be actively involved in the community.
Robert Coleman Owner of Endless Mountain Stone
2004 President of the Pennsylvania Bluestone Association.
2002 Holmes Safety Association Pennsylvania Council Award 0.00 Incidence
Rate
2001 Holmes Safety Association Pennsylvania Council Award 0.00 Incidence
Rate
1999 Business of the Year from The Northern Tier Regional Planning and
Development Commission
Bluestone in America
American bluestone is a feldspathic sandstone, which is produced by about 150 mostly
small quarries in adjacent areas of Pennsylvania and New York. The Pennsylvania
Bluestone Association has 105 members, the vast majority of them quarrier's.
Bluestone from Pennsylvania and New York is commercially known as bluestone or
Pennsylvania Bluestone. These are a group of sandstones defined as feldspathic
greywacke. The sand-sized grains from which bluestone is constituted were deposited in
the "Catskill Delta" during the Middle to Upper Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era,
approximately 370 to 345 million years ago. If the initial deposit was made under slow
moving water the ripples of the water action on the sand or mud will be revealed. This
deposition process may be seen today at any ocean beach in shallow water or in a stream
bed where conditions allow it to be observed. The term "bluestone" is derived from a
deep-blue-colored sandstone first found in Ulster County, NY.
The Catskill Delta was created from run off from the Arcadian Mountains ("Ancestral
Appalachians") which covered the area where New York City now exists. This Delta ran in
a narrow band from southwest to northeast and today provides the base material for the
high-quality bluestone which is quarried from the Catskills (and Northeast Pennsylvania).
As the product became more popular as an architectural and building stone and demand
grew, quarrying for it spread throughout south central New York and northeast
Pennsylvania. It is a unique commodity of particular value to the economy of
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
This bluestone is made into products as follows: The bluestone is separated from the rock
(quarry face) in the quarry by parallel cuts with saws with diamond-tipped blades into
large rectangular blocks. Sometimes the stone is lightly blasted to encourage splitting
along parallel planes of weakness, delineating the top and bottom of the block. The final
products are often made in the quarry, but sometimes massive blocks are trucked to "saw
shops" to be finished there, by sawing, by "snapping" or breaking the stone with a
guillotine along a line of pressure points, or by splitting along planes of weakness.
The largest volume product is ordinary irregularly-edged flagstone, followed by ashlar.
Flagstone belongs to a group of products that require no (or very little) sawing, such as
rubble masonry and landscape stone. Two other product groups are classified as
Architectural Stone, one group that requires some sawing or "snapping" such as paving
stone, wall stone, ashlar, bridge stone, and curbing, and the other group that requires
sawing on all surfaces, such as counter tops, stair treads, lintels, thresholds, ashlar,
sidewalks, and residential walls (veneer). The ashlar can be sawn on all six surfaces, or
"snapped" on one or more surfaces with the remaining surfaces sawn.
American bluestone is a feldspathic sandstone, which is produced by about 150 mostly
small quarries in adjacent areas of Pennsylvania and New York. The Pennsylvania
Bluestone Association has 105 members, the vast majority of them quarrier's.
Bluestone from Pennsylvania and New York is commercially known as bluestone or
Pennsylvania Bluestone. These are a group of sandstones defined as feldspathic
greywacke. The sand-sized grains from which bluestone is constituted were deposited in
the "Catskill Delta" during the Middle to Upper Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era,
approximately 370 to 345 million years ago. If the initial deposit was made under slow
moving water the ripples of the water action on the sand or mud will be revealed. This
deposition process may be seen today at any ocean beach in shallow water or in a stream
bed where conditions allow it to be observed. The term "bluestone" is derived from a
deep-blue-colored sandstone first found in Ulster County, NY.
The Catskill Delta was created from run off from the Arcadian Mountains ("Ancestral
Appalachians") which covered the area where New York City now exists. This Delta ran in
a narrow band from southwest to northeast and today provides the base material for the
high-quality bluestone which is quarried from the Catskills (and Northeast Pennsylvania).
As the product became more popular as an architectural and building stone and demand
grew, quarrying for it spread throughout south central New York and northeast
Pennsylvania. It is a unique commodity of particular value to the economy of
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
This bluestone is made into products as follows: The bluestone is separated from the rock
(quarry face) in the quarry by parallel cuts with saws with diamond-tipped blades into
large rectangular blocks. Sometimes the stone is lightly blasted to encourage splitting
along parallel planes of weakness, delineating the top and bottom of the block. The final
products are often made in the quarry, but sometimes massive blocks are trucked to "saw
shops" to be finished there, by sawing, by "snapping" or breaking the stone with a
guillotine along a line of pressure points, or by splitting along planes of weakness.
The largest volume product is ordinary irregularly-edged flagstone, followed by ashlar.
Flagstone belongs to a group of products that require no (or very little) sawing, such as
rubble masonry and landscape stone. Two other product groups are classified as
Architectural Stone, one group that requires some sawing or "snapping" such as paving
stone, wall stone, ashlar, bridge stone, and curbing, and the other group that requires
sawing on all surfaces, such as counter tops, stair treads, lintels, thresholds, ashlar,
sidewalks, and residential walls (veneer). The ashlar can be sawn on all six surfaces, or
"snapped" on one or more surfaces with the remaining surfaces sawn.
Endless Mt. Is a top notch Company.
We have been getting Bluestone for many year from them and have gotten great service. With the
shop has being able to make Special orders with great lead time and with little or no problem. Makes
my world much easier.
On a visit back to see them Butch was able to take time and give us a great tour of the shop and many
of there quarries. It was very good learning experience. Butch also took time to visit us at Stone fest
2008. Which really shows he care.
Thanks to all the Endless Mt. Crew.
Hope to be buying stone from you for years to come.
Scott Hinton Purchaser
Marenakos Rock Center
www.marenakos.com
30250 SE High Point Way
PO Box 478
Preston, WA 98027
(425) 392-3313
We have been getting Bluestone for many year from them and have gotten great service. With the
shop has being able to make Special orders with great lead time and with little or no problem. Makes
my world much easier.
On a visit back to see them Butch was able to take time and give us a great tour of the shop and many
of there quarries. It was very good learning experience. Butch also took time to visit us at Stone fest
2008. Which really shows he care.
Thanks to all the Endless Mt. Crew.
Hope to be buying stone from you for years to come.
Scott Hinton Purchaser
Marenakos Rock Center
www.marenakos.com
30250 SE High Point Way
PO Box 478
Preston, WA 98027
(425) 392-3313
Office : 570-465-7200
Fax: 800-672-3524
Fax: 800-672-3524