Big Lime
Inscription
The Greenbrier Limestone, which crops out here and along U.S. Route 219 between Renick and Salt Sulphur Springs, is the "Big Lime" of the driller. Fish-egg like oolitic zones in the "Big Lime" yield oil and natural gas in West Virginia.
Location
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More markers in Greenbrier
Alderson Baptist Academy and Junior College
Alderson, WV
Alderson Academy opened September 18, 1901, a coeducational secondary school founded mainly through the efforts of Miss Emma C. Alderson.
Sam Black Church
Built in 1901, church building was dedicated in memory of the Rev. Sam Black (1813-1899).
Pontiac's War/Welsh Cemetery
Massacre of white families of Muddy Creek and of the Clendenins near here by a band of Shawnee Indians led by Chief Cornstalk, in 1763,...
Greenbrier Military School
Lewisburg, WV
First established at Lewisburg 1808-09 by Dr. John McElhenney and chartered as an academy in 1812.
Meadow River Lumber Company/United Methodist Church
Rainelle, WV
Established as Raine-Andrew Lumber Co. concern with purchase of 32,000 ac.