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THE CHAPMAN SLATE QUARRY.

These are to-day the most noted, its well as the best and most extensively worked slate quarries in America. Their management has been brought to a stage of great perfection, and the excellence of the slate produced is such as to commend them to the favorable notice, not only of American, but also of European purchasers and consumers.

The master-spirit in the opening of these quarries, in perfecting their management, and in raising the quantity, quality, and general reputation of their product, is William CHAPMAN, a gentlemen of Cornish extraction, whose father was a soldier under the Iron Duke, and fought with him at Waterloo; and it was near that bloody field that William Chapman was born, in the year 1816; his mother having gone thither to nurse her husband, after the battle, and remained there for many months.

Mr. Chapman-who was a practical slater-emigrated to America, and settled in Northampton county in 1842. The quarries were opened and worked in 1850

Source : Davis's 1877 History of Northampton Co, PA
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/northampton/davistoc.htm