{"id":840,"date":"2018-04-22T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berthoudhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=840"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:11:45","slug":"benson-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berthoudhistoricalsociety.org\/de\/benson-quarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson-Steinbruch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"840\" class=\"elementor elementor-840\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77367096 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"77367096\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26038d62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"26038d62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Alfred Benson\u2019s rock quarry was covered by the waters of Carter Lake reservoir in the 1950s. The quarry was located on the west shore of the lake where its outline may still be seen.<\/p><p>Alfred Benson was born in Tumblegorg, Sweden. His family came to America in 1883 but it wasn\u2019t until 1902 that he joined his uncle Nels Magnusson in Berthoud. Benson learned stone masonry from Magnusson and operated a quarry that provided stone for projects across the country.<\/p><p>In July 1937, the Berthoud Bulletin reported, \u201cAnother car of stone flagging has been shipped from the A.A. Benson quarries to Texas\u2014Houston and Galveston. This was one of several cars shipped to contractors in that part of the country, and another car is ready for shipment, and will likely be called for soon. Mr. Benson\u2019s quarries will be a hundred feet under water when Carter (Blore) Lake is completed and filled under the Grand Lake-Big Thompson project. It is likely that all of the great amount of stone that will be needed for construction of dams, for riprapping, etc., will be taken from the quarries before the fill is made. Mr. Benson has about twenty acres of land that will be flooded when the big basin is made.\u201d<\/p><p>When Benson\u2019s retirement neared in October 1948 the newspaper added, \u201cIn addition to its use in homes and business buildings, the stone is used for monuments, sidewalks, rip-rap for irrigation ditches and reservoirs, grease trap covers, hearths, and many other applications. It weighs 165 pounds per cubic foot and has been taken out in flat, table-like pieces as big as 24 ft. by 4 inches thick.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred Benson\u2019s rock quarry was covered by the waters of Carter Lake reservoir in the 1950s. 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