From Quarry to Cemetery Monuments

Vermont Marble Company Mill at Proctor, Vermont (from Vermont Marble Co. H Monument Catalog)

Barclay Bros.’ Granite Shops, the largest in the world in Barre, Vermont (from “The Granite Industry,” in the Inter-State Journal, 1902)

Beginning to Frame Mill of Colorado-Yule Marble Co., Marble, Colorado, March 1907

Colorado Yule Marble Co. Mill at Marble, Colorado

Mill and a portion of the “McKenzie Blue Quarry” of the Alabama Carrara Marble Co., 4 miles southeast of Talladega (Preliminary Report on The Crystalline and Other Marbles of Alabama, 1916)

A view of the marble dressing works of the Kennesaw Marble Co. near near Marietta, Georgia, showing how large blocks of marble are easily handled with the derrick (from A Preliminary Report on the Marbles of Georgia, 1907)

Marble Mills, West Rutland, Vermont (postcard photo)

Vermont Marble Co. Stone Complex, Proctor, Vermont (postcard photo)

View of marble yard at Proctor, Vermont (from the Vermont Marble Co. H Catalog)

Stone ready for shipment

Shipping docks, Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vermont (postcard photo)

The Granite Yard, Bayview, Gloucester, Massachusetts (postcard photo)

Office of the Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vermont (postcard photo)

Mt. Waldo Co. Granite Co. Mill, Frankfort, Maine (postcard photo)

Main cutting plant of the Victoria White Granite Co., Keene, New Hampshire (postcard photo)

Shed and Yard at Rocky Point Granite Quarry, Tulare County (from The Structural and Industrial Materials of California, Bulletin No. 38, 1906)

McGilvray Stone Works, Knowls/Raymond, Madera County, California (postcard photo)

General view of the McGilvray Works & Yard (postcard photo)