Texas marble

Washington Monument Washington, D.C.

Description

A white, coarse-grain, calcitic marble quarried near the town of Texas in Baltimore County, Maryland. Texas marble can contain some veins of mica and small amounts of pyrite. Exposure can discolor the stone as the pyrite oxidizes. Texas marble was used for the bottom 152 feet of the Washington Monument. The upper portion of the monument is covered with Cockeysville marble. These two marbles are separated by 4 courses of Lee marble from Massachusetts.

Sources Checked for Data in Record

• Frank A. Lent, Trade names and Descriptions of Marbles, Limestones, Sandstones, Granites and Other Building Stones Quarried in the United States Canada and other Countries., Stone Publishing Co, New York, 1925