Tennessee Pink Marble

Tennessee pink marble is famous all over the world.

Tennessee pink marble.

We readily keep varieties of tennessee pink quaker gray cedar champlain black and other domestic stones at our headquarters in friendsville tn. Photo courtesy of the knoxville museum of art. While tennessee marble is not true marble its crystalline nature lends it a strong resemblance to marble especially when polished. Pink marble is more than pretty especially when you pay attention to it in knoxville.

As the premier showroom for tennessee pink marble candoro is a featured stop on this self guided tour of knoxville. Tennessee pink marble is a kind of pink marble quarried in united states. This stone is especially good for building stone countertops sinks monuments pool coping sills ornamental stone interior exterior wall floor paving and other design projects. While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades.

The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties. The pink marble trail is whimsical as well as solid with history and culture. The use of tennessee marble declined after world war ii when cheaper building materials became widely available.