Tennessee Valley Marble, Inc. is a quarrier and fabricator of Tennessee marble and other stones. The company has supplied many projects over the past seven years and is currently working on the fabrication of stone for the renovation of the National Archives and Records Building in Washington, DC. The lighthouse is now mounted onto
slabs of Imperial Black Marble from Thornhill, a community in Grainger
County. The marble was fabricated in
Friendsville by the Tennessee Valley Marble Company and then installed
by Stonecraft, Inc. Imperial Black Marble is one
of only two black marbles quarried in America and is an exclusively
Tennessee marble.
This loading station was
where the black granite from the Grainger County Quarry was loaded.
Located in Lone Mountain, Tennessee.
RR Crossing with loading
crane in background
TENNESSE VALLEY MARBLE ACQUIRES IMPERIAL BLACK MARBLE CO
Tennessee Valley Marble, Inc. of Friendsville, TN, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Imperial Black Marble Co. of Thorn Hill, TN. Imperial Black marble has been used in a wide variety of projects over the past 60 years, including the Tennessee State Capitol Building in Nashville, TN, the Plaza of the Americas in Dallas, TX, the Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville, TN, and the Cincinnati Cathedral in Cincinnati, OH.
From the Knoxville News Sentinel
The black wall in the News
Sentinel's lobby was fabricated in Friendsville of marble quarried in
Tennessee. The lighthouse on the wall, a symbol of the E.W. Scripps
Co., formerly hung on the side of the newspaper's old building.