Growing up on a farm in Nebraska, I knew all the Sullivan's around us were from Ireland and then Michigan. But I guess I always thought that they had a little farm in Michigan before buying railroad land in Neb. My father was born in 1887 and died in 1979 when I was 49 so you would have thought that thru all that time I would have heard about mining in Michigan. But I didn't. When I found this out I asked an old man that lived in our little farming town if he had know that. "Oh sure, Can I tell you about what my dad said?" "Sure" "Well when those Irish boys decided to get limestone rock from the quarry (this is in a nearby town) for their house foundations they went to the quarry and didn't like the size of the pieces that the man there was blasting. And so those guys got the blasting powder and the drills and they just blasted the hell out of that quarry. My dad said that when they were finished they had enough small rock laying around that they could have rocked every road in Lancaster County." Teresa Sullivan