The quarry was ran and owned by the nast brothers (hence the name nasbro) and.. The town was built about 1875 around the mining of lime rock which was used by area smelters.
After a lengthy legal battle which was eventually routed to the supreme court, it was decided that foreign investors would indeed be allowed to own mining claims, which was a reversal of previous policy,.. Back in the 1920's up to around the 1970's there use to be a mill town where they mined and processed lime in lime kilns.