A block of limestone lands on the ground after being cut from the shelf at Indiana Limestone Co. Central Quarry on Victor Pike. The three black airbags inflate to separate the cut block, which is 54 feet long, 12.5 feet tall and 5 feet thick, weighing about 500,000 pounds. David Snodgress | Herald-Times
A block of limestone lands on the ground after being cut from the shelf at Indiana Limestone Co. Central Quarry on Victor Pike. The three black airbags inflate to separate the cut block, which is 54 feet long, 12.5 feet tall and 5 feet thick, weighing about 500,000 pounds. David Snodgress | Herald-Times

It might not be the Grand Canyon, but the view from the top of the ridge over Indiana Limestone’s 115-foot-deep Central Quarry is Indiana’s next best thing on a cloudless late spring afternoon.

On one side of the huge hollow lie blue-green pools of water; on the other side sits a deep ledge containing 1.4 million cubic feet of high-quality Salem limestone from the Mississippian period, about 330 million years old.
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