Portage Quarry Recreation Club

Specialties

Join us for diving, sunbathing, swimming, and volleyball. As well as our many special events. Also learn the history of diving past and present from us at www​.inter​na​tion​al​le​gend​sof​div​ing​.com

History

Established in 1978.

The Portage Quarry can trace its beginning to the time between the Ordovician and Silurian eras, two of six periods in the Paleozoic era nearly 400 million years ago when limy sludge was beginning to harden. That sludge formed from the carbonate secreting creatures in the reefs and hardened into limestone. The use of Portage Quarry as a business dated back to the late 1800s when the limestone was highly valued for its level of dolomite. It was reported that there was no purer dolomite in the world. Dolomite was used for building stones and an aggregate in concrete and asphalt for roads. Geologists report that this type of Niagara limestone indicated that it originated as an enclosed or isolated portion of the sea basin.

Meet the Business Owner

Jeff R.

Business Owner

The year was 1978 when I took over. Davis called and said he did not want to run it anymore. I took it over because I was in a very high stress environment and would go there to relax. I would eat lunch there and after work would go to dive and swim. I had my own private place nobody wanted.