Ochee Spring Quarry

Ochee Spring Quarry is an historic quarry in Johnston, Rhode Island. Located on a privately owned outcrop of land behind 787 Hartford Avenue (United States Route 6), the quarry was a source of steatite (soapstone), a relatively soft stone easily workable into containers. Native Americans are known to have used this quarry.^[2] A study of the site conducted in the mid-1980s concluded that the quarry was probably worked in an organized manner, to produce containers in a variety of sizes. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England.^[3]

Ochee Spring Quarry
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Site of the quarry, c. 1920
Nearest city	Johnston, Rhode Island
NRHP reference No.	78000003 [1]
Added to NRHP	May 5, 1978

The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island