See my reference post.

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Note added at 3 days13 hrs (2013-07-10 09:21:12 GMT) Post-grading
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Hi Timoshka, I'm sorry I didn't return to this question before now. My reference comments were intended to prompt you to do appropriate research specific to the location in your text, to which we don't have access, not to list the exact quarry. My links indicate there were at least 3 quarries with that name. I expect there were more. To reject this answer, as Andrew does, on the basis of distance of quarry from your location, is really not borne out by experience or history. London is built of Portland stone, Portland being miles away in Dorset, for instance. Carrara marble is quarried in Carrara, Italy and was shipped throughout Europe throughout the 18th century and later : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_marble

These are just two examples. If a stone was known to be highly fire resistant, then it is very likely that it would be ordered and transported from where it was quarried all over the US to be used for that purpose.

Further, having extensive experience of translating 19th-century texts, I often come across terms unfamiliar to the present day. Often I stumble over the spellings as given and presume the author must be wrong. However, I can't tell you how many times I have subsequently discovered that the author knew precisely what they were talking about and that their spelling was not wrong. Unless a text has other instances of dialect or mis-spellings, I would tend now to believe my author. In the 19th century, people were so well taught in Germany, and elsewhere, in respect of spelling, that you find very few instances where that has gone haywire.

I hope you find the answer to your present conundrum.

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Note added at 3 days19 hrs (2013-07-10 15:04:58 GMT) Post-grading
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Ah, well, now that does make a difference. I see why you went for what you did, though I also see why you say it is not conclusive one way or another.