Fall Apple Harvest

Apple harvest time in the orchards surrounding Gerrardstown
 

 Hay Fields in the Fall

Cutting Hay - Farms surrounding Gerrardstown

Additional photographs in the photo album, click below

 Photo Album

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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS - GERRARDSTOWN

Gerrardstown area - Oban Hall center of image 

 Mount Olive United Methodist Church

 Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church

 Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church Graveyard

 Destiny Lane and Dominion Road

Mountain streams washing across roadways cut into the site.

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Burnt asbestos and PVC pipe within the water runoff pattern

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Destiny Lane - purposed "haul road"

for quarry

Destiny Lane is no place for

dump trucks & children together

Lane bound by cemetery and homes is

not wide enough for two lanes 

A new feature has been added!!

A photo album has been started due to popular demand to post additional photographs too.  In an effort to keep this website from being too bulky, photographs are limited.  The photo album allows more photographs to be available.

Click to access photo album 

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You can right click on any picture and get a modest enlargement of that picture.  In some cases we have provided very large images via special links.  Be sure to use your browser "back" button to return to the original page.

A zoom feature is available on some maps.  Just right click on the image and select the zoom feature you want. 

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Purposed quarry operation site visible from Virginia   

Mills Gap in North Mountain  in West Virginia  from Virginia residential areas

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Berkeley County Properties surrounding  purposed quarry location

The Berkeley County Tax map above shows the relationship of the two pieces (indicated by red dots) of property that comprise the Carr Farm to the surrounding residential and farm properties.  These properties that now sell for $20,000 an acre or more will be worth less if a open face quarry mine is allowed on the Carr Farm property purchased by Continental Brick Company.

Technically Continental Brick Company has leased the property to North Mountain Shale, LLC however the owners and managers are active in both companies.

A LLC company is a Limited Liability Company or Corporation and protects the owners and managers from individual legal actions for the most part.  It is of the CARE group’s opinion that this company structure would allow North Mountain Shale to walk away from whatever permit obligations that were agreed to at some point in the future, leaving the scarred face of North Mountain as it were.

Even a most superficial look at this map would make the point that a quarry would be placed right in the middle of a large concentration of individual residential communities and be detrimental to the citizens living there now and who might have lived there in the future.

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SATELLITE VIEWS 

 Gerrardstown

 Gerrardstown

 Glenwood Forest

Destruction and erosion already occurring

springs running across property into Mill Creek

Farm pond before - clear with bass, wild turkeys, geese and feeding cattle drinking troughs 

farm pond after - sediment loaded

Sediment stream clearly visible from quarry run off into otherwise clear tributaries feeding into Beaver Pond on farm downstream.