By 1930, the S. E. Rand Transportation Co. acquired the ice pond tract. The owner was Seth E. Rand (1895-1951) of Rye, and he operated it as a stone quarry.

Just over 100 years ago, the quarry on Belle Isle became a quarry pond when workers struck two cracks in the granite, allowing water to seep in from the James River and fill the 20-foot-deep hole ...