In my garden are two types of limestone, both of which I imported from other places in Ohio. Limestone renders some interesting history. The stone path winding to the front door is quarried limestone, it holds ancient sea fossils and has a yellowed cast. We had traveled to a quarry in Delaware County, walked our way down into it and hauled stones that looked serviceable for the sort of path we were wanting to make. Weighed and paid for the stone on the way out, and after a few repeated trips we were ready to construct the walkway. Ohio is underlaid in limestone in many places. The Ohio Caverns are formed within the Columbus Limestone Formation; limestone dissolved by acids in the water seems to create them.[1] Limestone underlays my own land. This soil is “consolidated limy mud or calcareous sand, sometimes with fossilized seashells” and covered with a layer of glacial till. Western Ohio was ground flat by the glaciers. So, limestone is native rock in the area, but none is above ground here where I live. With some of the extra slabs of limestone which we brought in, we also constructed small retaining walls for my driveway planting beds. They weather down and trucks entering the drive have further crushed some of them, but they still hold back the soil from the graveled drive. One famous quarry hereabouts was the Marble Cliff Quarry Co. It was responsible for much of the limestone used to build the Ohio Statehouse and the LeVeque Tower, once the only skyscaper on the Columbus skyline. I remember looking towards downtown and seeing the skyscraper from the Summit Street bridge as a little girl. Later, land belonging to that quarry became the little hamlets of Marble Cliff and Grandview Heights. Both of those urban neighborhoods have now become hubs for the arts, great eating places, and just good people watching. Also quarried from Marble Cliff is the stone which constructed the home of the [3] grandfather and great-grandfather of U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, U.S. Senator Samuel Prescott Bush. The other source of my limestone rocks was the Catawba Island of Lake Erie. We used to go there for summer vacations and there were the most interesting rocks along the shore and sometimes sitting on the ground around the area. It is a white stone with portions of smoothed surface and knobs. They were exposed on outcroppings all over the island of Catawba, too- white and fissured with the best holes and crannies for plants. Over time I transported some to my garden, and use them to line some of my naturalistic plantings. In that area was an old lime kiln from long ago[2]. Limestone had been an industry, slaked lime used for making plaster and mortar, and for reducing soil acidity. All long gone now, with only old ruins of the lime kilns left in picturesque decay. There are Indian caves in the area of Catawba Island in Ottawa County, and close to the old kiln is a rock outcropping with a romantic legend of Nabagon. He is the “watcher” whose profile is carved from the rock, vigilant caretaker of the Island. This is located in a (now) private part of Catawba.