Go east on Barber Greene after it intersects with Peace Road. The Elmer Larson Quarry is one of the largest owned corporations in the country. Elmer Larson began management of the quarry over 65 years ago through the use of mobile crushing plants and impact crushers that went to various job sites around the country to locate limestone and gravel deposits. These machines then processed the materials for use on various projects. The Elmer Larson Quarry has a limestone site and a sand and gravel site.
Products produced in the limestone quarry include chert, shale, and dolomite .
The limestone is processed in order to get a wide variety of sizes. Sediments mined from the sand and gravel quarry are from erosional deposits consisting of a heterogeneous mixture of materials. The deposits are related to the advance and retreat of continental glaciers that moved back and forth between Canada and Illinois. The glacier deposited materials by its meltwater. Consequently, the quarry has well sorted and layered deposits.