Fisk Quarry Preserve


This old quarry, 4 miles south of St Anne’s Shrine on Vermont's Isle La Motte, is home to the world’s largest fossil reef. Half a million years old, the reef once provided limestone for Radio City Music Hall and Washington’s National Gallery. Interpretive trails have signs explaining the quarry's history.


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