GRANITE QUARRY — The town of Granite Quarry has put a lot of work into its outdoors presence. That effort is close to coming to fruition, as the town is close to implementing a new master plan for the ...

In a recent drive up Rattlesnake Hill, Kurt Swenson found the quarry he once owned eerily quiet. Gone were the employees who sliced blocks of stone from walls a hundred-plus feet down from the edge, a ...

The 18-year-long partnership providing Granite Quarry police services to the Town of Faith is in jeopardy. The Faith Board of Aldermen voted to terminate the current agreement between the two towns, ...

Editor’s note: This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont’s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. Many of these articles are based on audio/videotaped ...

Jul. 5—CONCORD — It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. But last month, the last commercial granite quarry in New Hampshire was quietly shut ...

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty’s platform is made of granite from right here in Connecticut? The granite is from the Stony Creek Quarry in Branford. Now, the quarry is making history again.

BARRE, Vt. — Giuliano Cecchinelli, a beret and a beard framing his expressive face, drove a chisel into Barre Gray granite as he shaped a religious sculpture for a large cemetery monument. Dust puffed ...

Rattlesnake Hill Quarrymen pictured in 1890 transporting harvested granite down Rattlesnake Hill to the granite cutting sheds on North State Street. Credit: James W. Spain photo Martin prepared to ...

One of Vernon’s most distinctive landmarks, the Vernon Courthouse, is made all the more impressive by the fact that its granite was quarried locally.