Reidsville Quarry

Reidsville Quarry owned and operated by the Brate and Flagler Families

At the turn of the century, the Reidsville Quarry was a bustling site employing between 100 – 150 men who worked to produce bluestone that was used as sidewalks in the City of Albany. Constant streams of horses with wagons carried the flagging stones to Albany and more recently just to the Village of Voorheesville after railroad tracks were built there. Paul Giebitz owns this area now, and his company, Heldeberg Bluestone, is still busy cutting and drilling bluestone in its Mt. Grippy quarry. An article written by Shiela Stempel, “Heldeberg Bluestone paves the way through historic years,” may be found in the September 23, 1975 issue of The Helderberg Sun.

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  Fuller and Brate Families
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  224 Lark St. in Albany N.Y.
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  Truck #4 with Billy Ernst standing by the fender
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  Reidsville Blue flagstone Quarry 2 - Courtesy of Timothy J. Albright
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  Workmen at the Bluestone quarry