The area’s unusual geology helped shape a rich stream of historic discoveries, visionary people, successes, and failures. European explorers came later, looking for copper and other resources buried within the earth. Their recession was followed by Native American hunters and gatherers who employed the area’s resources- geologic, flora, and fauna-for their pottery, tools, and food. In more recent times, glaciers scoured the area, leaving behind vast deposits of sand and gravel. Most visitors do not realize that oceans covered this area some 1.25 billion years before, a time when there was little life in the seas and even less on land, but when the astounding volume and variety of minerals in this area was deposited in as what we now know as the Franklin Marble. Sparta, Ogdensburg, Franklin and surrounding Sussex County communities are most widely known for their rolling hills, farms, lakes, and back country lanes. Thanks to Jack Clark, Executive Director of the Sparta Historical Society and Van Kirk Homestead Museum, for providing insightful historical research, perspective, and narrative. The Franklin Marble Iron, Sparta Mountain
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