Limestone Still Employs Bedford: A Look at the Industry Today
Everyone knows Bedford's limestone built the Empire State Building. Fewer know the quarries are still hiring today. Here's what a view of the local limestone industry looks like.
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Everyone knows Bedford's limestone built the Empire State Building. Fewer know the quarries are still hiring today. Here's what a view of the local limestone industry looks like.

Bedford Federal Savings Bank anchors this retail strip on John Williams Boulevard in Bedford. Across the street, a freshly graded lot waits on its next tenant, more of the same growth reshaping this corridor.

A 30-minute drive from Bloomington and a median price gap of about $117,000. Here's what I tell buyers curious about Bedford, Indiana, before they write it off as just a fallback.

These eagle-head carvings mark the entrance to Indiana Limestone, showing the kind of detailed stonework that put Lawrence County limestone into buildings across the country.
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