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The Barnard Quarry was “in the township of ‘Barton.’ The operator was John M. Barnard, R. D. 1, Barton. The granite was called “Barton” and is reportedly a medium gray color of medium texture. When measured, the quarry was 300 by 100 feet and had a depth up to 9 feet. At the time of the inspection, the quarry was idle.
Accessory minerals: Apatite, zircon. Secondary minerals: Kaolin, chlorite, calcite.
The granite from the Barnard Quarry was used for monumental work.
Adams & Bacon,
Beldens, Vermont
Marble that is better than Brandon Italian or Florentine Blue.
Does not exist and your stock is not complete without these varieties. We furnish both eight Rough or Finished, and we fill all orders in the best possible manner. We ship promptly and we guarantee satisfaction. Write for prices.
Peverley Bros., 1215 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Agents for Pa, N.J., Md., Del., Va., and W. Va.
A. Bernasconi & Co., granite cutters, of Berlin, Vermont, have filed a petition in bankruptcy, giving their liabilities at $1,616.43; assets, $1,130.
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Belvidere,….”
The Ellis Quarry was located “on the east side of Christian Hill, about 2 miles north of Bethel village, in Bethel Township.” The operator was Woodbury Granite Company, of Hardwick, Vermont. In 1922 the quarry was idle. “The quarry, permanently opened in 1902 but in a small way many years earlier and abandoned, was estimated in 1907 as being about 1,000 feet long from north to south, and from the southern three-fifths of its length 150 feet wide, but the remainder 400 feet wide. Its depth was 5 to 40 feet, averaging about 15 feet. Its west edge is about 80 feet higher than its east edge.” (For examples of buildings built with granite from the Ellis Quarry, see the examples given in the Woodbury Quarry section following this section on Ellis quarry.)
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Bethel….”
The Woodbury Quarry was “50 feet north of the Ellis Quarry, on the east side and top of Christian Hill, about 2 miles north of Bethel village, in Bethel Township.” The operator was Woodbury Granite Company of Hardwick Vermont. In 1922 the quarry was idle. The quarry opened in 1902. In 1907 the quarry measured about 500 feet from north to south and was 200 feet across. It had a depth from 5 to 30 feet.
The granite from the Woodbury Quarry and the Ellis Quarry was used for buildings and monuments. Examples can be found at: the Capitol of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin; the American Bank Note Building in New York…; the Theodore N. Vail residence in Morristown, New Jersey; the Mary Ann Brown Memorial Library in Providence, Rhode Island, the State Library and city hall in Hartford, Connecticut; the post office, Union Station, and the first and second stories of the New National Museum in Washington D. C.; the Franklin Savings Bank in Greenfield, Massachusetts; the Congdon residence in Duluth, Minnesota; the Eddy Memorial in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Swope Memorial in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
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| (postcard photograph; published by May Blossom, Bethel, Vt.; made in Germany; postmark November 24, 1908) |  |
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Bolton….”
“Vermont.- Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Braintree….”
“The Brandon Italian quarry is half a mile south of Brandon station and 0.7 miles west of the west boundary of the basal dolomite. (See Pl. I and map of Brandon quadrangle, U. S. Geol. Survey.) The quarry measures about 600 feet north to south by 60 feet across and 75 feet in depth.
“Operator since 1909, Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vt.
“The marble is of uncertain thickness owing to close folding, as explained below. The character of the marble is regarded by the operators as identical with that of the Hollister quarries.
“The marble, “Brandon Italian” (specimens D, XXII, 250, a, b, rough) is a calcite marble of light bluish-gray color crossed by small dark-gray graphitic dolomitic beds which on the bed face produce an irregular mottling. Its texture is uneven and somewhat elongated, with grain diameter in the calcitic parts of 0.05 to 0.87, mostly 0.17 to 0.5 millimeter, and it is thus of grade 4 (medium). The grain form and texture as shown in figure 22. An estimate of the average grain diameter by the Rosiwal method yields 0.155 millimeter. The section did not cross any of the dolomitic beds. Quartz grains, somewhat plentiful, measure 0.05 to 0.07 millimeter. A little pyrite and rarely muscovite are also present.
“The beds strike N. 20° –25° W. and on the east side dip steeply to the east at the south end but stand vertical at the north end. In the center of the quarry they zigzag in a horizontal direction, indicating a synclinal or anticlinal structure. A repetition of the beds on either side of the synclinal axis is therefore to be expected. Core drilling at a point 200 feet east of the quarry shows continuous marble. In breaking the blocks an obscure vertical cleavage parallel to the bedding on the east side of the quarry is utilized. The possible synclinal structure is shown in figure 23, b. The marble in 1903 was reported as affording evidence of compressive strain.
“Specimen: Roman Catholic Church at Middlebury.”
“There were but two active quarries in Brandon in 1910. The marbles of four idle ones which were visited in 1903 were examined microscopically. Two new prospects were opened in 1911.”
(Page 517, in the “Among Our Advertisers” section:
“Anticipating an increasing demand for their marble for monumental and building purposes the Brandon Italian Marble Co., of Brandon, Vt., is developing a large addition to their quarries, to insure being in shape to take care of their increased trade. They report having had a very fair trade this summer.”
Brandon Italian Marble Company
J. Duncan Upham, President - H. D. Bacon, Tres. and Manager.
Brandon Italian Marble
It has - Beauty - Strength - Durability. Sawed and Finished for the trade.
Office, Quarries and Mills. Brandon, VT
“The Brandon Italian Marble Co. are opening a new quarry of dark blue marble near Brandon, Vt. ”
| Brandon’s Italian Marble Company’s Quarry from “The Town of Brandon,” in New England Magazine, November 1897, pp. 305. |  |
(postcard photograph 26 - #OA 3987; C. W. Hughes Co., Inc. Mechanicville, N. Y.; postmark August 31, 1937) |
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“The Connell quarry is about 1,800 feet ENE. of the Goodell quarry and 4 ¼ miles southwest of the bench mark in Brandon village. (See Pl. I.) Operator, Brandon Marble Co., Brandon, Vt.
“The quarry measures 60 by 30 feet and is 24 feet deep; there is a second opening 175 feet to the north.
“The beds here consist of 30 feet of marble, both overlain and underlain by graphitic dolomite. The stratigraphic position is like that of the Goodell quarry. The thickness of 30 feet includes a 7-foot bed of fine white statuary, 13 feet of mottled, and 10 feet of gray marble.
“The white marble (specimens D, XXXI, 88, a, rough; b, polished) is a calcite marble of very faint ivory tint and of regular, even texture, with grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.45, mostly 0.1 to 0.24 millimeter. A Rosiwal measurement of a thin section shows an average grain diameter of 0.1 millimeter. It therefore belongs to grade 2 (very fine), as does also the “statuary Rutland.” It contains rare quartz grains and sparse minute black specks. It takes a high polish.
“The beds are on the strike of the beds in the Goodell quarry (N. 30° E.) and dip 40° S. 60° E. The excavations have not proceeded far enough to show the relations of the two dolomite beds to one another.”
Corona Marble Co.,
Producers and Wholesale Dealers in
Corona Brandon, Brandon Cloud and Dark Veined Blue.
Brandon, Vt.
“The Goodell quarry is at the foot of the north end of the Taconic Range about 2 ½ miles southwest of Brandon station. ( See Pl. I.) It is a small opening abandoned soon after it was made owing to the smallness of the marble bed.
“The beds include 15 feet of fine white marble, apparently both underlain and overlain by a dark gray graphitic quartzose dolomite. Some of the marble is in thin beds and the whole is reported as running out or covered along the strike. It probably belongs toward the upper graphitic series.
“The marble (specimen N. D, I, 9, b) is a calcite marble of milk-white color and of regular, even texture, with grain diameter of 0.02 to 0.37, mostly 0.07 to 0.25 millimeter, and thus of grade 2 (very fine). It takes a high polish.
“The marble bed and the dolomitic rock on both sides of it strike N. 30° E. and dip 35° S. 60° E. Of the overlying dolomite a thickness of 15 feet is exposed. It is uncertain whether the two dolomitic beds are one bed doubled over or two distinct beds. The rock in thin section has a grain diameter of 0.009 to 0.094, mostly 0.02 to 0.04 millimeter. Its character as dolomite is not shown by twinning. It contains sparse grains of quartz and rarely one of plagioclase (feldspar). A very graphitic quartzose bed a millimeter thick and another twinned calcite particles with quartz grains appear in the section.
“W. T. Schaller, of the Geological Survey, who examined the rock qualitatively, reports that “calcite and dolomite together form a large part of it, but dolomite itself does not form the chief constituent.”
“A railing with balusters of this marble can be seen at the side of the pulpit in the Congregational Church at Brandon.”
“The abandoned quarry at locality 238 is a mile north of the Landon, a little east of the railroad, and about 2 miles S. 25° E. of Brandon station. (See Pl. I.)
“The marble is a calcite marble of milk-white color, with little cloudy dolomitic and muscovitic beds. The calcitic parts are irregular in texture and have a grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.75, mostly 0.12 to 0.38 millimeter, being thus of grade 4 (medium). The marble contains some pyrite and a little quartz.
“The plicated bedding is vertical and is crossed by low eastward-dipping cleavage (‘reeds’).”
“Prospect 255 is 2 ¼ miles north of Brandon station, just west of the boundary of the basal dolomite east of the road to Leicester. (See Pl. I.)
“The marble is white and light bluish gray. A specimen of the latter (D, XXII, 255, a) shows small medium gray dolomitic bands up to 0.1 inch wide. The calcitic part is of irregular texture and has a grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.75, mostly 0.12 to 0.5 millimeter, being thus of about grade 4 (medium). It contains minute quartz grains and some pyrite. A large plate of untwinned dolomite, 1.12 millimeters across, with rhombic cleavage, is crowded with graphite. This marble is coarser than that of the Royce quarry.
“The beds strike N. 10° E. and dip 35° E. Dolomite lies east of the marble with like dip, both forming part of an overturned fold. The marble thus belongs at base of the marble series.”
“The long idle Royce quarry is three-fourths of a mile northwest of Brandon station at the west foot of a ridge 100 feet high. ( See Pl. I.) The quarry measures about 150 feet along the strike. The marble exposed measures about 70 feet, underlying (really overlying in the consequence of overturned folds) grayish dolomite which may be the intermediate dolomite.
“The marble is of two kinds. One (specimen D, XXII, 218, a) is a calcite marble of very light bluish-gray color, with inconspicuous medium-gray dolomite (?) mottling (beds), and of even texture, with grain diameter in the calcitic part of 0.02 to 0.37, mostly 0.1 to 0.25 millimeter, and thus of grade 3 (fine). It contains some small quartz grains and some pyrite. There is a rough parallelism of the twinning planes of different particles. The other (specimen D, XXII, 218, b) is a calcite marble of milk-white color, with little grayish micaceous dolomitic beds. The calcitic part has a grain diameter of 0.02 to 0.5, mostly 0.1 to 0.25 millimeter, and s thus also grade 3. It contains small sparse quartz grains and very minute black particles of uncertain nature.
“The marble and the dolomite east of it strike N. 15° - 20° W. and dip steeply to the east. The upper marble beds are crossed by joints dipping 30° W.”
“The quarry of the Vermont Italian Marble Co., of Brandon, is 1 ½ miles N. 20° W. of the bench mark in Brandon village. (See Pl. I.) It was opened in 1911.
“The marble is reported as practically identical with that of the Brandon Italian quarry, 2 miles to the south, and is said to measure 600 feet in width, without reference, of course, to any duplication in folding. The beds dip about 18° roughly eastward. One or more of them attain a thickness of 8 feet.”
“A short time ago Granite Marble & Bronze sent out a questionnaire to thousands of retail monument dealers throughout the country for information regarding the part the motor truck plays in the retail monument business….”
“Of course, the real interest in connection with this digest is in quoting what the dealers have to say about the subject, for the sayings are many and various….”
“Grant Granite Co., Brattleboro, Vt.:
“‘We use a Ford one-ton truck, but it is constantly over-loaded. It saves much time. Two men and one truck will handle more work than four men and two teams. Of course, it occasionally gets stalled in soft country roads and is unsatisfactory when snow is on the ground.
‘The truck itself is not cheaper than a two-horse team, but the saving is in the extra labor required to do the work with teams. Our repairs have been above expectation, but this has been due largely to overloading and incompetent drivers and repair men. We have ordered a Nash truck for next year.’”
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Bridgewater….”
H.M. Phelps, Barre Granite
Yard & Mill, 182, 184, 186, 188 & 190 Bank St.,
Office, 190 Bank St., Burlington, Vermont
Barre Granite is a beautiful dark grey, polishes very highly
and shows a good contrast
between polished and hammer dressed surfaces.
Barre Granite - No Granite Has Grown So Rapidly
in Public Favor, And Has Given Such General Satisfaction
As Barre Granite.
We Handle Nothing But The Darkest and Best Barre Granite.
Statuary, Vaults, Tombs, Coping, Monuments and Ornamental Building.
Work out of the best Dark Barre Granite.
J. W. Goodell & Co.,
Main Office and Steam Mills,
241 to 261 Pine St., Burlington, Vermont
Barre Granite Monuments.
And Cemetery Work.
Western Agents, Burlington Mnf'g. Co.,
Michigan Ave., Cor. Van Buren St., Chicago, ILL.
The Redstone Quarry is located in a suburban neighborhood in the city of Burlington. Today the quarry site is located in a 3-acre natural area owned by the University of Vermont. "Monkton Quartzite or 'redstone'...was quarried there for over 100 years and used as building material and crushed gravel. Many of the older buildings found on the University of Vermont Campus and in downtown Burlington were constructed with large blocks of this reddish brown stone."
The Lambert Prospect was “in the northern corner of the township, on the east side of a north-south ridge, roughly about 4 miles east of Robeson Mountain in Woodbury and about 700 feet above Woodbury Pond…It is on the farm of Myron Goodnough, near the Walden line, on the South Walden road which leads from Cabot to Hardins.” The operator was the Cabot Granite co. (Joseph Lambert) of Hardwick, Vermont. The granite is a “dark gray” of dark bluish-gray color and fine texture.
Accessory minerals: Pyrite, titanite, apatite, and allanite. Secondary minerals: Calcite, epidote, kaolin, and one or two white micas.
The quarry opened in 1904. some work was done in 1907 and more later but operations were suspended in 1915.
“The town of Calais adjoins Woodbury on the southwest. The quarries are at Adamant (formerly known as Sodom), in the west corner of the town and 6 miles north-northeast of Montpelier.”
The Lake Shore Quarry was located “about 1,200 feet S. 32° W. from the Patch quarry, near Adamant, in Calais.” It was abandoned before 1915. The granite is a light to medium gray shade and a little darker than “light Barre, although lighter than “medium Barre.”
In 1907 the quarry was measure to be “about 300 feet long in a N. 60° W. direction by 250 feet across and from 20 to 40 feet deep.”
“Medad Wright, the senior member of the firm of M. Wright & Son., of Wrightsville, in Montpelier, was born in Calais, Vt., in 1812…While in boyhood he began to develop mechanical skill and inventive genius of no ordinary ability, which was clearly discovered in his inventions of several articles of practical value…Upon reaching his majority he bought the waterpower which he now occupies, and began work there in 1834…The mill was 30 x 30 feet, two stories high, furnished with two runs of stones, one for grinding corn, the other for wheat, with smut-mill and bolt. These millstones were taken from a quarry in Calais, and wrought to final finish by Mr. Wright’s skillful hands….”
“The town of Calais adjoins Woodbury on the southwest. The quarries are at Adamant (formerly known as Sodom), in the west corner of the town and 6 miles north-northeast of Montpelier.”
Patch Granite Quarry
The Patch Quarry was “within half a mile of Adamant, in Calais.” The operator was the Hughes Granite & Quarry Co. of Montpelier, Vermont. The granite is “medium gray,” a medium, slightly bluish-gray color with a medium texture. “This granite is of the same shade as “medium Barre” but of less bluish and more greenish tinge.”
Accessory minerals: Apatite and zircon. Secondary minerals: Kaolin, calcite, and white mica.
The Patch was opened about 1893. In 1907 the quarry was estimated to measure 250 feet from north to south by 150 feet across. It had an estimated depth from 20 to 50 feet. Transport of the granite was by cart 7 miles to Montpelier.
The granite from the Patch Quarry was used for monuments, and the chief market was in the Middle West.
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Cambridge….”
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Cavendish….”
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Chester….”
“The Clarendon quarry is east of the foot of the Taconic Range, 3 miles south-southeast of West Rutland, in the township of Clarendon. (See Pl. I and map of Castleton quadrangle, U.S. Geol. Survey.) The quarry, an old one, abandoned before 1900 but reopened in 1909, is about 100 feet north to south by 51 feet across, with an average depth of 30 feet. Its length is being extended 40 feet. Operator, Clarendon Marble Co., West Rutland, Vt.
“The marble beds exposed and prospected are, in natural order, as follows:
Section of marble beds at Clarendon quarry.
Graphitic marble - 50 feet
Graphitic schist - 7 feet
Graphitic banded marble - 19 feet
White marble, slightly mottled (“Clarendon A”) - 17 feet
White marble, mottled and banded - 34 feet
Mixed mottled marble - 99 feet
Dolomite - 20 feet
Graphitic variegated marble - 81 feet
(total) 327 feet
“The schist boundary must be very near the top of the series.
“‘Clarendon A’ (specimen D, XXXI, 27, a rough; f, polished) is a calcite marble of bluish-white color, with little bands or rows of spots of medium gray shade. It is of uneven texture, consisting of coarser white parts with grain diameter of 0.12 to 1, mostly 0.25 to 0.62 millimeter, and thus of grade 5, and of finer dolomitic gray parts from 0.1 to 0.2 inch in width, thus of grade 1. The white parts contain some minute grains of quartz and of pyrite and minute black specks of uncertain nature. The gray spots and bands are graphitic. The marble takes a high polish, the dolomitic bands and spots standing out in minute relief.
“The dark-gray banned marble of the 19-foot bed (specimen D, XXXI, 27, b, c,) is a graphitic calcite marble, in some beds almost black, alternating dark with bluish gray bands from 0.05 to 0.2 inch wide without plications, but in other beds of light-gray calcite marble alternating with similar bands of dark-gray shade. It has a grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.5, mostly 0.12 to 0.37 millimeter, and is thus of grade 4. It is graphitic throughout but particularly so in the dark bands, and pyritiferous, with quartz grains rare and small, and limonite stain. This marble takes a high polish.
“The variegated rock of the lowest bed is a graphitic calcite marble of very dark bluish-gray color, mottled or irregularly banded with very light bluish gray, almost bluish white, and of grade 4.
“The beds strike N.10° W. and dip 42° W. A section of the graphitic schist (7-foot bed) shows it to be a sericite-quartz-graphite-calcite schist. It is finely plicated and crossed by slip cleavage and is veined with quartz, calcite, and pyrite. This is the typical schist of the base of the schist formation of the Taconic Range. The marble is cut by joints striking N. 35° W., dipping 45° N. 55° E., and spaced 3 to 7 feet. The marble beds at the surface are finely glaciated and the glacial polish has been preserved by a bed of clay which at the back of the quarry, over the small schist bed, is very graphitic and measures 7 feet in thickness, and a little farther west measures 30 feet and contains bowlders and sand.
“The marble is used for construction. Specimen of ‘Clarendon A’: The free-standing, iron-centered columns of the State Educational building at Albany.”
“The Clarendon Valley quarry is on the east side of the intermediate range, on the J. D. Pratt farm, about 1 ¼ miles south-southeast of Clarendon village church and 2 miles southwest of East Clarendon, in the Otter Creek Valley, half a mile east of the creek, in Clarendon Township. (See map of Rutland, quadrangle, U. S. Geol. Survey.) The quarry, opened in 1909-10, is 50 by 35 feet and 9 feet deep. Operator, Clarendon Valley Marble Co., 29 Broadway, New York, or Clarendon, Rutland County, Vt.
“The marble beds exposed here consist of at least 70 feet of calcite marble.
“The marble (specimens D, XXXI, 28, a, rough; b, c, polished), “Clarendon Valley Gray,” is a calcite marble of very light bluish-gray color, with fine, closely and acutely plicated dark-gray dolomite beds. The calcite marble of the ground is of irregular texture, with grain diameter of 0.5 to 2, mostly 0.12 to 0.5 millimeter, and thus of grade 5 (coarse). The little dolomite beds consist of irregular and rhombic untwinned dolomite with a grain diameter of 0.025 to 0.1, mostly 0.05 to 0.07 millimeter, and thus of grade 1. Graphite abounds in the dolomite beds, but occurs also sparsely throughout the calcite marble, as does also quartz. There are rare grains of feldspar (orthoclase, plagioclase, and microcline), muscovite flakes, sericite stringers, and small particles of pyrite in the calcite, but pyrite abounds in the dolomite bands. The polish is good except on the dark bands. Some of the marble, “Clarendon white,” is a trifle lighter and has fewer gray streaks.
“The beds strike N. 55° –60° E. and dip 25° N. 33° W. They are crossed by cleavage dipping 25° E. There are large exposures of either the basal dolomite or the intermediate dolomite with a westerly dip between the quarry and Clarendon Village, on the east side of the road. The marble of the quarry evidently belongs between the basal and intermediate dolomite, probably near the former.”
“Close-up view of operations in one of the many tunnels in the famous Danby quarry, Danby, Vt.”
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This quarry was located “near the center of the town of Derby about 4 miles roughly east of the city of Newport, on Lake Memphremagog.” This quarry was formerly owned by the Newport Granite Company. At the time of the report, the operator was A. C. LaCasse Granite company of Newport, Vermont. The granite was called “Derby Gray” and is reportedly a light bluish-gray color with a medium texture. The shade of this granite is between the “Light Barre” and the granite in Hallowell, Maine. The granite is carted 4 miles to the railway at Newport.
Accessory minerals: Apatite, titanite, allanite, rutile. Secondary minerals: Kaolin, a white mica, and calcite from chemical test.
The granite from the Lacasse Quarry was used for monuments and buildings. An example of this granite: the prison-ship martyrs’ monument in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York, height 150 feet, shaft 18 feet in diameter at base and 14 feet at top.
The Parmenter Quarry was “in Derby Township, near Beebe Plain, close to the Canada line and about a mile east of Lake Memphremagog.” The owner was W. H. Parmenter of North Derby, Vermont. The Granite reportedly is a very light gray color of medium texture. It is generally lighter in shade than the granite of North Jay and darker than the granite of Bethel and similar to the granite of “West Dummerston White” but has more conspicuous black micas.
The quarry was opened in 1909. When it was measured it was 40 by 25 feet in area and had a depth of 10 feet. Granite from this quarry was carted ½ mile to a siding of the Canadian Pacific Railway at North Derby. There was a larger quarry on the Canadian side that was formerly worked by the same operator a few hundred feet from the Parmenter Quarry. The quarry was idle in 1916 and abandoned in 1920.
“It's All About Marble,” Dorset’s Marble Heritage event to be held on Sunday, July 27th (2008) from 12 - 5:00 P.M. at the Dorset Historical Society, Bley House Museum, on VT-30, Dorset. The afternoon’s celebration will include Speaker’s Art Gilbert, retired geologist, Terry Tyler, Larry Becker, State Geologist, and Tyler Resch, author of “Dorset” as they focus on the history of the Dorset area’s quarries and marble industry.
Area sculptor Rosalind Compain will be unveiling a sculpture for the Dorset Historical Society made from the Plateau marble. Sculptors Fred X. Brownstein, Michael Fannin, Ryder Owens, Paul Hilliard, Karen Preissler, and Steve Storchwill will each have a block of Plateau marble to demonstrate the art of carving and will complete their sculptures for a Dorset Historical Society auction event to be held at a later date....”
“It’s All About Marble,” Dorset’s Marble Heritage will be free to the public and held on Sunday, July 27th rain or shine.
For more information about this special Dorset Historical Society event, or for general Dorset Historical Society information, please contact the Dorset Historical Society at (802) 867-0331.The Dorset Historical Society has several publications available that contain very interesting information on their local abandoned quarries. A few of these publications include: (1) Dorset’s Marble Mountain, published by The Dorset Historical Society, Dorset, Vermont; (2) Three Easy Walks in Dorset to Historic Marble Quarry Sites All on Mts. Aeolus and Dorset, and each with impressive views: Gettysburg Quarry - overlooking the Dorset Valley; Folsom Quarry - with views over the Manchester valley; Freedley Quarry - views to the Green Mountains, Dorset Historical Society, 2005; (3) Walking Tour: Visit the historic village of Dorset, Vermont, Dorset Historical Society, 2004.
Gettysburg Quarry, Dorset Historical Society
“Marble Quarries (in Dorset),” by Frederick Field, in The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: Magazine, embracing A History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military, edited by Abby Maria Hemenway, Vol. I. Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden and Essex Counties, Burlington, Vt: published by Miss A. M. Hemenway, 1868, pp. 189-190.
Marble Quarries, by F. Field, Esq. (Frederick Field)
“The Dorset Marble Quarries are, with two exceptions, located upon the different slopes of Æolus Mountain - some quite at the base, others at various distances up the mountain, the most elevated of which is 1400 feet above the valley.
“The strata of marble usually occur 5 to 20 of them together, resting one above the other with seams between them.
“These strata, or layers as they are called by the quarrymen, vary in thickness being from 1 to 6 feet, and usually run from the surface back into the mountain horizontally. With few exceptions each layer retains its own peculiar characteristics, such as color, thickness, texture, &c. as it is followed back from the surface; except that in going back there is a general improvement in the quality of all the layers.
“White is the prevailing color, with here and there varigations (sic) of blue. This marble formation is principally carbonate of lime, whilst above and below are strata of magnician (sic) and silicious lime stone, and other rock common to the Taconic Range.
“It is not known when the first settlers of Dorset discovered the mineral wealth of their township; certain it is, however, that beds of marble were known to exist long before their value was understood.
“The first quarry opened in Dorset was by Isaac Underhill, in the year 1785, on lands owned by Reuben Bloomer, and near where Dorset Pound now stands. This quarry is still owned by the Bloomer family. Here was heard the first ‘click’ of the hammer, and here was made the first ‘raise’; thus inaugerating (sic) a branch of industry which has made Dorset known throughout the Union. Mr. Underhill’s object was simply to procure fire-jams, chimney-backs, hearths and lintels for the capacious and rudely constructed fireplaces of those days; common limestone and slate had previously been used for this purpose. People 50 to 100 miles distant came for these beautiful fireplace stones, and considerable trade in them soon sprung up. John Manley and others soon embarked on the quarrying business with Underhill on the same ledge, though on the opposite side of the highway.
“Since the opening of this first quarry 8 others of importance have been opened in Dorset, which we will here name in the order of their opening, giving the names of the present owners, when and by whom each quarry was opened.
“Wilson McDonald & Friedley’s quarry opened in 1808 by Elijah Sykes, 12 quarrymen now employed. McDonald & Friedley’s quarry opened in 1810 by John Chapman & Abraham Underhill, 20 quarrymen employed. Gray and Briggs quarry opened in 1821, by Lyman Gray and others. Holly Field’s and Kents Vt., Italian Quarry, so called from its close resemblance to the foreign article, opened in 1835, by Chester Kent and Sam’l Fulson, 35 quarrymen employed. Holly Field’s & Kents, Extra White Quarry, opened in 1836, by Edmond Manly. Gray, Wilson, Sanford & Co.s opened in 1840, by Martin and George Manly, 15 quarrymen employed. Major Hawley’s Quarry opened in 1841, by Wm. J. Soper and T. D. Manley, 20 quarrymen employed. Fulson & Barnards Quarry opened in 1854, by Sam’l Fulson and A. J. Clark, 6 quarrymen employed.
“Of the above 9 quarries, two of them, viz: Gray & Briggs and the Bloomer Quarries are not now being worked. On the remaining 7 may be constantly heard the sound of the chisel and the sledge.
“Seven other openings have been made in valuable ledges in Dorset but they are not yet developed into fully remunerative quarries.
“The first channeling was done on the McDonald & Friedly Quarry in 1841, this process of cutting around blocks before raising them from their native beds is now generally practiced. The only tunneling as yet done, is upon McDonald & Friedlys’ Quarry it having been commenced there in 1859.
“The first Derrick erected in Dorset was by S. D. Manley, in 1848; 10 others are now in use. The first Marble Grave Stone ever finished in Dorset, is believed to have been the work of Jonas Stewart, in 1790, out of a slab taken from the Bloomer Quarry. Stewart was a manufacturer of slate and granite gave-stones, at Claremont, N. H. Not much was done in the use of marble, for this purpose, until 1808, when Elijah Sykes on opening his quarry, gave this branch of the marble business his chief attention, and since his day it has continued of the first magnitude.
“The early quarrymen of Dorset, for many years, labored under great disadvantages, for want of facilities to saw their marble. They were compelled to seek out those places, usually, upon the top or outer edge of the ledges, where the strata were seamy, or subdivided, by atmospheric influences, and could be easily split, or riven into sheets, of from 4 to 8 inches thick, each. These sheets were then hewn with the mallet and chisel to the desired shape for use. The more compact, and consequently better marble, in individual layers, 2 to 5 feet in thickness, could not be used at all, for the want of mills to saw it. The first attempt at sawing marble, in Dorset, was made by Spafford Field and Josiah Boothe about 1819 (some 30 years after the first quarry was opened. Three individuals put in operation a gang of saws, on the site now occupied by Major Hawley’s mills in South Dorset. This first mill was constructed in accordance with the best knowledge then possessed upon the subject, yet it could saw but little. About 1827, Dan Kent and Barnum Thompson erected mills which were improvements on Field and Boothe’s mill, though inefficient. So late as 1840, we find Edmond Manley’s mill, the only one successfully running in Dorset. Three or four small mills were running in Manchester, on Dorset marble, making in all what would be equal to about 6 gangs of the present style of construction, whilst at the same time 9 quarries were open, and being vigorously worked. The marble was finding a ready sale in New York, Bosto, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland, and intermediate points. The trade in Italian and Rutland marbles being then hardly commenced, the demand for Dorset marble was beyond the supply. Surface marble, which could be split with the wedge, always of poor quality, becoming more difficult to obtain, more mills to saw the thick layers were indispensable. The right mode of construction had now become better understood and efficient mills began to be built. Between 1840 and the present time, 7 mills have been erected in Dorset, all of which are now in successful operation. They carry, in all, 35 gangs of saws. Add to these, 27 gangs, now running, in Manchester, and we have a total of 62 (?) gangs, running on Dorset marble. They saw, annually, about 750,000 feet (2 inches of thickness being the standard of measurement,) selling for about $200,000, the present annual product of the Dorset quarries. These quarries are believed to be inexhaustible, and this annual product is limited only by the amount of capital invested in the business. This marble is now used in every State in the Union, and also in the Canadas. There are now employed, here, over 300 quarrymen and sawyers, mostly Irish and Canadian French, - the former largely predominating. The early quarrymen and sawyers were Americans, - so late as 1830 only three Irishmen were employed.”
“A syndicate composed of prominent Philadelphia and Baltimore marble contractors has been formed to operate the old marble quarries east and south of Dorset, Vt., formerly worked by D. L. Kent & Co. and S. F. Prince & Co. The property has been idle for two years.”
“The Freedley quarries include four openings: (1) The Tunnel quarry, opened about 1790, is about a mile west of Freedleyville, 1,160 feet above it, on the 2,040-foot level. It is on the east side of the southern and eastern spur of Dorset Mountain, in the town of Dorset. (See map, Pl. I, and map of Pawlet quadrangle, U. S. Geol. Survey.) This quarry has an east-west tunnel 160 feet long. (2) The Upper quarry, north of the Tunnel quarry, is also of very early date. (3) The Open quarry, begun in 1909, is about 500 feet northeast of the Tunnel quarry, begun in 1910, is over half a mile north of the Open quarry.
“Operator, Manchester Marble Co., East Dorset, Vt., also Graham Avenue and East River, Astoria, Long Island City, N. Y.
“The marble bed, as reported by the superintendent, include the following:
Section of marble beds at Tunnel and Open quarries, Freedleyville.
Tunnel quarry:
Marble, mostly banded with muscovite - 92 feet
Dolomite - 8 feet
Marble, white and gray - 70 feet
Open quarry:
White marble - 45 feet
Micaceous bed - 1 foot
White marble - 44
Dolomite - 260 feet
“Mr. Moffit in 1900 noted the following section at the Upper quarry:
Section of marble at the Upper quarry, Freedleyville.
Bluish dolomite - 10 feet
Light-gray marble (“ Manchester blue”) - 26 feet
White marble - 4 feet
White marble (“mahogany bed”), including two 1-foot micaceous and quartzose beds - 10 feet
“At the Tunnel quarry Mr. Moffit observed a dolomite overlying 15 feet of coarse white marble. He reported 110 feet of marble in all, three-fourths of which was good. He also found the schist boundary a little farther north, 100 feet above the bluish dolomite.
“The marble of the Open quarry (specimen D, XXXI, 8, a, rough) is a translucent, faintly cream tinted coarse white calcite marble with a grain diameter of 0l.12 to 1, mostly 0.25 to 0.5 millimeter, and thus of grade 5. The “Manchester blue” (specimen M, V, 6, j) of the Upper quarry is a very light bluish gray coarse calcite marble with a grain diameter of 0.05 to 1.37, mostly 0.25 to 0.75 millimeter, also of grade 5. It contains rare minute quartz grains, a few stringers of fibrous muscovite and plates of muscovite, and cubes and spherules of pyrite, to the oxidation of which the cream tint is probably due. The “mahogany” (specimen M, V, 6, h) of the same quarry is a milk-white calcite marble of very irregular texture, with grain diameter ranging from 0.05 to 1.5, mostly 0.125 to 0.75 millimeter, and thus also of grade 5. It contains a few small quartz and feldspar (plagioclase) grains.
“A hand specimen (M, V, 6, m) from the 15-foot bed of the tunnel quarry resembles the white of the Open quarry. A polished specimen of the “white” (D, XXXI, 8, c) from one of the beds now worked is of extremely light bluish-gray color and of irregular texture, with grain diameter up to 2 millimeters. A polished specimen of the “cloud” (D, XXXI, 8, d) is of very light bluish-gray color with a medium gray dolomitic bed up to 0.2 inch wide and irregular gray spots near it. The texture is uneven and irregular, with grain diameter in the calcitic part up to 1.5 millimeters. Both specimens take a good polish, but the dolomitic bands project in minute relief. A specimen (D, XXXI, 8, b) of one of the micaceous beds consists of light bluish-gray and white calcite marble with grayish micaceous and pyritiferous lenses or beds, some not over 0.02 inch and others 0.1 inch thick. In thin section these lenses consist of fibrous muscovite and quartz with lenses and crystals of pyrite. The marble parts also contain a few quartz grains, muscovite scales, and a little pyrite.
“The older openings were made between two trap dikes about 200 feet apart. The eastern dike is about 6 feet wide, strikes N. 25° E. and dips 80° W. The marble beds are horizontal. Vertical joints strike N. 10° E. and N. 65° W.; others strike N. 30° E. and dip 65° E., and still others strike N. 20° and dip 60° W., which is not far from the course of the eastern dike.
“The marble is used for interiors and exteriors of buildings. Specimens: Soldiers and sailors’ monument, Riverside Drive; Drexel Building, southeast corner of Wall and Broad streets, New York.”
“The Imperial quarry is on the east flank of the northern part of Dorset Mountain, in the town of Danby, in Rutland County, a little north of the Danby-Dorset town line, about 700 feet above Danby station, or 1,690 feet above sea level, N. 60° W. of a conspicuous steep ravine in the Green Mountain range. For its general position see Plate I and map of Pawlet quadrangle, United States Geological Survey, and for the general form of benches and knolls of this side of Dorset Mountain, see Plate III, section A. The quarry, opened since 1900, consists of a tunnel running 160 feet in a N. 70° W. direction by 45 feet in a N. 10° E. direction and 50 feet high, with an offset 25 feet square on the floor level. Operator, Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vt.
“The marble beds here, as exposed in quarrying and core drilling, consist, measuring from the roof of the tunnel downward and making deduction for inclination of the bed, of about 192 feet of light marbles, creamy white, bluish white, mottled, banded, clouded, or gray in various alternations. Beds of marble 4 to 8 feet thick are separated by very thin beds of mica schist. In a now disused open cut above and west of the tunnel from 30 to 40 feet of light marbles are exposed. Here the schist beds are as much as a foot thick, are rather quartzose, and contain calcite crystals an inch across.
“The marble (specimen D, XXXI, 6, c, rough; a, cube; b, polished), ‘Danby,’ is a coarse calcite marble of faintly cream-tinted, somewhat translucent color with yellow-greenish-gray irregular streaks or mottlings which are much more conspicuous on the polished face than on the rough, or irregular texture, with a grain diameter of 0.07 to 1, mostly 0.17 to 0.62 millimeter, and thus of grade 5. It contains sparse quartz grains and some pyrite (rarely as large as 2 millimeters), some muscovite scales, and minute black specks. The greenish-gray streaks and clouds are due to muscovite and pyrite in very minute particles. The polish is good but is affected slightly by the composition of the little beds. The general texture of the marble is similar to that shown in figure 15.
“The beds strike N. 40° W. and dip 10° S. 50° W. In the open cut above the tunnel the marble is in open folds 50 feet in diameter, with a N. 40° E. strike. At the mouth of the tunnel cleavage planes (“reeds”) strike N. 15° E. and dip 35° E.; these decrease in abundance within the tunnel. Joints in upper beds of the open cut strike N. 33° E. and also less commonly N. 57° W., both sets being of steep dip. There is a 3-foot bed in the open cut full of “reeds” dipping 40° E. These are reported by the foreman as being less abundant in the micaceous beds.”
“The New York quarry is about one-fourth mile west of the Imperial quarry and about 240 feet above it (see map, Pl. I) and of more recent date. It has a tunnel 150 feet wide and 35 feet high running 215 feet southwest. The northeastern part of this tunnel has been deepened to 100 feet over a space 55 feet square; 125 feet north of this tunnel is another 40 feet wide and 20 feet high, running 80 feet southwest. This northern tunnel is shown in Plate X, B.
“The marble beds here include, in natural order:
Section of marble beds at New York quarry.
Dolomite (?) above tunnel - 10 feet.
White marble exposed in south tunnel - 35 feet.
Bluish, cream, white mottled, and light-gray calcite marbles in alternating beds, including three beds of dolomite (1 foot 8 inches, 1 foot 6 inches, and 6 feet) all crossed by drilling 105-
(Total) - 150 feet.
“The marbles are not essentially different from those of the Imperial quarry, described above.
“The beds are inclined 10° to 15° S. 15° W. This probably represents a very low, nearly west dip combined with a southerly pitch of the fold. At the north side of the southern tunnel is a dike of augite camptonite (see p. 72) 5 feet 6 inches wide with a N. 25° E. course and a dip of 65° N. 65° W. For a space of 80 feet northwest of the dike–that is, above it– the marble is crossed by many joints parallel to the dike, and these are crossed by another set, as shown in Plate X, B. Although the marble above the dike has been thus rendered valueless, that on the other side, under the dike in the southern tunnel, is sound. Fifty feet northwest of the northern tunnel another dike of augite camptonite only 2 to 4 inches thick cuts the marble with a N. 30° E. curse and a dip of 70° N. 60° W., and the marble for a space of 30 feet above and northwest of this dike also is much jointed.
“The marble of both the Imperial and New York quarries is used largely for construction, but some is suitable for monuments. The Chelsea Bank, Chelsea, Mass., and the Wheeler residence, Chicago, were made almost entirely of this marble.”
“The recently opened White Stone Brook quarry is on the east flank of the northern part of Dorset Mountain, about 200 feet above the most conspicuous bench or shoulder, the second one from below, and about 1,180 feet above the railroad in the valley. It lies about N. 80° W. of a steep ravine in the Green Mountain range, shown in Plate III, section A. The quarry is a little south of the Danby-Dorset town line, which is also the Rutland-Bennington county line, in the township of Dorset. It has a working face 78 feet high. Operator, Norcross-West Marble Co., Dorset, Vt.
“The marble beds exposed here and prospected by drilling are, in natural order:
Section of marble beds at White Stone Brook quarry.
Dolomite - 10 feet.
Gray marble - 10 feet.
White marble in beds 5 to 10 feet thick separated by 2 or 3 inches of schist - 68 feet.
Gray marble - 13 feet.
White marble - 3 feet.
Banded white and gray marble - 5 feet.
(Total) - 109
“The marble beds mostly alternate with beds of slickensided pyritiferous quartzose mica schist a few inches thick, the pyrite crystals elongated in the direction of slickensiding. This schist consists of calcite and vein quartz in lenses or beds alternating with fibrous muscovite, containing chlorite and lenses up to 0.25 millimeter thick, probably of some carbonate. In parts calcite, quartz, and sericite also occur mingled.
“The marble (specimens D, XXXI, 5, a, rough; c, d, e, polished), “White Stone Brook,” is a coarse calcite marble of faintly cream-tinted, somewhat translucent color, with fine yellow-greenish-gray streaks and spots hardly apparent in the rough but showing on a polished or rubbed face, and of very irregular texture, with grain diameter of 0.05 to 1.5, exceptionally 2.5 millimeters, mostly 0.25 to 0.75 millimeter, and of grade 5. An estimate by the Rosiwal method shows the average grain diameter to be 0.239 millimeter. The marble contains also sparse quartz in grains up to 0.3 millimeter in diameter, pyrite next in abundance, a few muscovite scales, rare grains of feldspar (plagioclase), and minute black particles of uncertain nature. The streaks and spots are caused by collections of these accessory minerals. This marble takes a good polish. A thin section of it is shown in figure 15.
“The beds dip in gentle undulations 5° to 10° E. In the front (east) part of the quarry is a trap dike, not studied microscopically, 3 to 4 feet thick, with a N. 35° E. course and a dip of 70° N. 55° W. Joints in the marble parallel to the dike and also fractures east of it, striking N. 55° E. and dipping 50° SE., deprive the marble there of value. The outer surface of the marble beds is also crossed by cleavage planes (“reeds”), striking N. 27° E., dipping 30° S. 63° E., and spaced 2 inches to 0.25 inch apart, which have the same effect.
“The product is used for construction.”
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(hand-colored postcard photograph; Amy Ann Lapham, Dorset, VT.; The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. - no postmark, date early 1900s) |
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| Black and white postcard photograph by H. P. Gilbert, Dorset Vermont. The caption reads: "South Dorset, Vt., Norcross-West Quarry" |  |
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The Norcross Quarry, circa 1910 |
The Norcross Quarry, 2004 |
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The Bailey Prospects were located “on the west side of West River about a mile south-southwest of the Black Mountain quarry, in Dummerston.” The owner was David J. Bailey, R. D. Brattleboro. In 1921 the quarry was idle. Granite from the quarry was a light-gray color and had a medium to fine texture. In 1907 the opening measured 200 by 15 feet and had a working face of 10 feet.
The Black Mountain Quarry was located at the southwest foot of Black Mountain, three-quarters of a mile south-southeast of the village of West Dummerston, in Dummerston, and 5 miles north-northwest of Brattleboro.” The operator was Presbrey-Leland Quarries (Inc.), 681 Fifth Avenue, New York. There were two main granites taken from this quarry. The main granite was the Dummerston White,” which was a very light gray color speckled with bronze-colored mica with a medium texture. This granite was a building granite of a light shade and medium texture. The other granite found at the quarry was “dark blue” inclining to a medium bluish-gray color and fine to medium texture. This granite was a monumental granite of light bluish-gray color.
Accessory minerals: Apatite, rutile. Secondary minerals: Kaolin, white micas, epidote, zoisite, calcite.
The quarry opened about 1877. At some point the quarry was closed and reopened again in 1921. In 1907 the quarry measured about 1,200 feet in a N. 20° W. direction along the base of the mountain, by 200 feet across.” The quarry was from 15 to 50 feet deep.
Granite from this quarry was used for buildings, monuments, and street work. Examples are: the Post Office at Troy, New York; the Diamond Bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the McFadden Building in Chicago, Illinois, and the Royal Baking Powder Building and Plaza Hotel in New York City.
The Clark Quarries were “east of West Dummerston village, on the northwest side of Black Mountain.” The operator was James Clark & Son of West Dummerston. In 1921 and 1922 the quarry was idle. There were two small openings. The lower opening was about 150 feet above the river bank and the upper opening about 330 feet. The granite taken from the lower quarry was of a very light gray color with conspicuous black mica and a medium to fine texture. The granite from the upper quarry appeared to be “exactly like the ‘white’ of the Black Mountain Quarry.”
“Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.
“At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of …Duxbury….”
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