Stories in Stone by David B. Williams

Author:David B. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Some people say we should thank Mrs. O’Leary’s cow for the popularity of Salem Limestone. Legend holds that her bovine kicked over a bucket that started the 1871 fire that forced Chicagoans to rebuild their city. As happened in most places that rebuilt after a fire, builders chose brick and stone for the job and within a year, several hundred buildings had “shot upwards like grass after warm spring rains,” as wrote a Chicago journalist.16

The standard story line of historians and promoters of Salem Limestone is that the “buildings that suffered least from the fire were of limestone.”

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