List of Quarries in Vermont & Quarry
Links, Photographs and Articles

• Barre, Vermont – Bugbee & Alexander  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, May 1906, pp. 340 Note: The same advertisement was published in the March 1906 issues of The Monumental News, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, pp. 237.)

  Bugbee & Alexander, Manufacturers of High Grade Monumental Work
  From Selected Barre Granite
  Barre, VT.

Bugbee & Alexander  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, May 1906, pp. 340

• Barre, Vermont – Burley & Calder (Manufacturers) (The following advertisement is from “The Monumental News,” August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 519.)

  Burley & Calder, Barre, VT.

  Manufacturers of Barre Granite Monuments and General Cemetery Work. All orders promptly filled. A trial solicited.

• Barre, Vermont – Burr, Emslie and King (Manufacturers) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 518.)

  Burr, Emslie and King, Barre, Vermont

  Manufacturers of Monuments and General Cemetery Work

  From Best Barre Granite. Correspondence solicited.

• Barre, Vermont – C. E. Tayntor and Company  (quarries in Barre & Graniteville)

See:  “Barre, Vermont – the Tayntor & Company”

• Barre, Vermont – Cable & Edwards (Monument Manufacturer and Dealer) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 522.)

  Cable & Edwards

Manufacturers and Dealers in Best Barre Granite Monuments

And Other Cemetery Work. Write for Prices.

Barre, VT.

• Barre, Vermont – Canton Brothers (Monument Manufacturers)  (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 475.)

  Canton Brothers,

Manufacturers of Light and Dark Barre Granite Monuments and General Cemetery Work.  Write for Estimates. - Barre, VT.

• Barre, Vermont – Canton Bros., Inc. Plant  (Advertisement from Granite Marble & Bronze, Vol. XXVII, No. 7, July 1917, pp. 17)

  Canton Bros., Inc., Barre, Vermont

  “How We Make the Plant Produce:  Twenty-two years ago, in 1895, the present business of Canton Bros., Inc., was established in Barre, Vt.  In 1902 the present modern plant was erected – 20 feet long by 60 feet wide.  It was equipped with all the latest tools and appliances.  This equipment has been added to from time to time until today the plant has the best facilities that brains and money can produce. 
  From the large power plant, overhead traveling crane, surfacing machines and battery of polishers down to the fine carving tools – everything has been done to secure the best so that we could turn out memorials with 99% perfection.

  And during these past twenty-two years some of the finest memorials in the country have been executed in our plant….”

Canton Bros., Inc. Plant, Barre, Vermont  (Advertisement from Granite Marble & Bronze, July 1917, pp. 17)

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the  Canton Granite Quarry  (from The Commercial Granites of New England, Bulletin 738, by T. Nelson Dale, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923.)

  The Canton Quarry was located “about 450 feet east-northeast of the Millstone quarry and northeast of the top of Millstone Hill, in Barre.”  The operator was E. L. Smith & Co. of Barre, Vermont.  The granite is “medium and light Barre,” medium and light bluish-gray.

  In 1907 the quarry was estimated to measure about 300 feet in a northeasterly direction by 200 feet across and from 35 to 60 feet in depth.

• Barre, Vermont - Capital Granite Company, Quarriers and Manufacturers of Dark Barre Granite  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, Vol. 8, #3, March 1896, pp. 205)
  

  Capital Granite Co., Quarriers and Manufacturers of best Dark Barre Granite
  “Our experience in the Granite business, and our quarry and plant being equipped with the latest and most improved machinery, enables us to produce large work cheaply and puts us in a position to supply the trade with first-class work at reasonable prices.  Remember we always give you the kind of granite and work you buy.  It will pay you to correspond with us before placing your order.

  Quarries at Barre, Vermont – Office and Works at Montpelier, Vermont – T. W. Eagan, Manager

“Cutting Sheds of Capital Granite Co., Montpelier, Vt.”

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the  Capital Granite Quarry  (from The Commercial Granites of New England, Bulletin 738, by T. Nelson Dale, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923.)

  The Capital Quarry was located “750 feet south-southeast of the McDonald & Cutter quarry and southeast of Millstone Hill, in Barre.”  The operator was the Consolidated Quarry Co. of Barre.  The granite is “medium and light Barre,” with a light bluish-gray color. 

  In 1907 the quarry measured 150 feet in a northeast direction by 100 feet cross.  It had a depth of 50 feet.  The Capital Quarry was a “boulder” quarry.  It was idle in 1921 and 1922.

• Barre, Vermont – Carle & Walker,  (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 522.)

  Carle & Walker,

  Manufacturers of and Dealers in Light and Dark Barre Granite
  Monuments, Tablets and General Cemetery Work.
  Fine Draped Work A Specialty.

  Barre, VT.

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – Carnes & Kane Granite Cutting and Polishing Shops (circa 1899) (Granite)  (Excerpt from Gazetteer of Washington County, Vermont, 1783-1889, Part First, compiled and published by Hamilton Child, Edited by William Adams, Syracuse, N.Y.: The Syracuse Journal Co., Printers and Binders, April 1899, pp. 146.  (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)
  

“Carnes & Kane’s granite cutting and polishing shops are located at East Barre village.  Mr. Carnes commenced business in 1879, and then employed but one man.  In 1885 he built the shops, 50 by 20 feet, now occupied by the firm, and put in two polishing machines.  Mr. Kane became his partner in 1886.  The firm owns two quarries and turns out a general line of monumental and statuary, rough and polished, granite work, and gives employment to twenty men.”

• Barre, Vermont – the Carswell-Wetmore Company, Manufacturers (Advertisement from The Monumental News, Vol. XXI, No. 6, June 1909, pp. 484)
  

Carswell-Wetmore Co., Manufacturers, Barre, Vermont, Advertisement from The Monumental News, June 1909, pp. 484.

• Barre, Vermont – Charles Bianchi & Sons, Manufacturers  (Advertisement from The Monument and Cemetery Review, October 1926, pp. i)
  

  Charles Bianchi & Sons, Manufacturers, Barre, Vermont, advertisement in The Monument and Cemetery Review, Oct. 1926

Forging Ahead
“Building on past achievements, not content with what has been done but using that as a step toward a higher goal, this foundation has gained a firm position for Charles Bianchi & Sons in the manufacturing field….”
Charles Bianchi & Sons, Manufacturers, Barre, Vermont

• Barre, Vermont – Granite Capital (photographs and descriptions), by Lee K. Marriner, Photojournalist, on the Photojournalistas.com web site. (There are many beautiful and unique photographs of the Barre granite quarries, people working in the quarries and equipment used in the quarries.)
• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarries, Barre, Vt.

  (postcard photograph, A 15470, made in Germany, unmailed.)

• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarry

  (color postcard photograph; published by Palmer's 5 & 10 Stores; made in Germany, unmailed)

• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarry

  (colorized postcard photograph #25, 117244; C. W. Hughes & Co., Inc., Mechanicville, N.Y.; C. T. American Art Colored; no postmark)

• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarry

  (colorized postcard photograph, #24, 117995-N; Lincoln-Lillie, Montpelier, VT.; Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. American Art" Post Card (reg. U.S. Pat. Off.); no postmark; early 1900s)

• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarry

  (postcard photograph #4, A-74119; Chas. W. Hughes, Mechanicville, N.Y.; no postmark, ca 1924 - 1925)

• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarry

  Vermont-Barre Granite Quarry with Derrick Photo

• Barre, Vermont - Granite Quarries No. 5

  (postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Barre, Vermont – Chas. H. More & Co.  (Quarriers, Cutters, & Polishers)  (from “Detail Carving for the Iowa’s Soldiers’ Monument,” presented in Charles H. More & Co. advertisements in 1894, Barre, Vermont.  Published in three parts in The Monumental News, July 1894, August 1894, & September 1894.  (Chas. H. More & Co. Main office:  Barre, Vermont; Western office:  53 Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois; Foreign office:  107 Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland)
  

  According to this article (available at the link above), granite quarried in Barre, Vermont, was used for the Iowa State Soldier’s Monument.  The carving was done by Carl Rohlsmith.  For this monument, Charles H. More & Co. remodeled and equipped one of the largest cutting establishments in the country, which was formerly owned by Wetmore & Morse Granite Company.

  Model of the top capital on the Iowa State Soldiers’ Monument	Reproduction from the model of the “more or less conventional style of carving shown on the original plans have been changed by the eminent artist Carl Rohlsmith….” (on the Iowa State Soldiers’ Monument)

  Model of the columns of the Iowa State Soldiers’ Monument	Section of pediment design (on the Iowa State Soldiers’ Monument)

  • Barre, Vermont – Chas. H. More & Co. (Quarriers, Cutters, and Polishers)  (from “Laying the Cornerstone of the Iowa Monument,” in The Monumental News, November 1894. 

    According to this article, “Barre granite and standard bronze are being used exclusively in the construction of this imposing memorial…The granite cutting is being executed at the extensive establishment of Charles H. More & Co., Montpelier, Vermont….”

  “The Iowa’s Soldiers’ Monument”

  • Barre, Vermont – Chas. H. More & Co. (Quarriers, Cutters, and Polishers) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 495.)

Chas. H. More & Co., Quarriers, Cutters and Polishers

Of the celebrated Barre and other New England Granites. Also importers of Swedish and Scotch Granites and Italian Marble Statuary. Exclusively Wholesale. Our own Barre, Swedish and Labrador Stock.

Main Office, Barre, VT.

Foreign Office, 107 Union St., Aberdeen, Scotland.

Western Office, 53 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.

(Captions under two photographs in advertisement:

Exterior View of Barre Plant - Interior View of Plant at Montpelier.)

• Barre, Vermont – Chas. H. More & Co.  (Quarriers, Cutters, & Polishers)  (from “A Revolution in the Granite Business,” in The Monumental News, October 1894)
  

  According to this article, the firm Chas. H. More & Co. of Barre and Montpelier, Vermont, was among the first to introduce the Pneumatic Stone Dressing Machine, introduced by the American Pneumatic Tool Company of New York.

“Pneumatic Stone Dress in operation.”	“Interior view of plant at Montpelier” (Vermont)

• Barre, Vermont – Charles H. More & Co. Advertisement in The Monumental News, September, 1895, Vol. 7, #9, pp. 561

  (text from the Charles H. More & Co. advertisement shown below)  “Special train leaving the works of Chas. H. More, with 20 car loads of granite for the Iowa State Monument at Des Moines, Iowa.  View of special train consisting of twenty carloads of granite (including two specials) starting from the Granite Works of Charles H. More & Co., at Montpelier, Vt.  This train load represents only a part of the large column which stands on top of the pedestal of the ‘Iowa State Soldiers and Sailors Monument’, referred to in previous numbers of this magazine. 

  “Special cars were necessary to transport eight stones in this monument, which were too large to go on ordinary flat cars.  As shown by the cut, one of these is made to carry a stone in a slating position and the other perpendicularly.  The slanting stone is sustained by three iron pins in the standard, on which the stone hangs so as to touch at no place on the edge.  The perpendicular stone is carried by a large steel bar, 4’ in diameter, passing directly through the stone in the centre.  The outer edge of this stone shown is finely carved, so that it had to be boxed for protection.  Same is true of some of the Plinths on the other cars, but the majority of this shipment are all plain stones, between eight and nine feet in diameter and two foot  two inches thick, resting one upon another.

  “The entire train was run through solid, to Des Moines, Iowa, via the Central Vermont, Grand Trunk, and Chicago & Milwaukee R. R.’s, in seven days.

  Chas. H. More & Co., Main Office, Barre, Vt.
  Foreign Office: 170 Union St., Aberdeen, Scotland
  Western Office: 60 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.”

“Special train leaving the works of Chas. H. More, with 20 car loads of granite for the Iowa State Monument at Des Moines, Iowa....” (Charles H. More & Co., Barre, Vermont, advertisement in "The Monumental News," Sept. 1895, pp. 561)

• Barre, Vermont – Charles H. More & Co. Advertisement in The Monumental News, November, 1895, Vol. 7, #11, pp. 687.
  

“View of special car built by Chas. H. More & Co. of Barre Vt., for the transportation of two of the large stones used in the top capital of the Iowa State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.” (Advertisement in The Monumental News, Nov. 1895, pp. 687)

• Barre, Vermont – Charles H. More & Co. (Advertisement in The Monumental News, Vol. 7, No. 12, December 1895, pp. 753)
  

Advertisement by the Charles H. More & Co., of Barre, Vermont, presenting the Mowry Vault in Englewood, New Jersey, in The Monumental News, Dec. 1895

(photo caption from the above Charles H. More & Co. advertisement) “The above is a cut of a Vault erected last spring in Englewood, N. J.  Stock is fine grained medium Barre, cut and finished with Pneumatic Stone Dressers, by Chas. H. More & Company at their Montpelier plant.  While plain and simple is its outline, it is in good proportion and well constructed.  The outer surface being all hammered, presents a smooth and unbroken surface to the weather, thus preventing any lodgment of dust and other matter to mar or discolor its beauty.  On this account, plain hammered work is far superior to rock face or caustic work, either in Monuments or Mausoleums of this kind.  For sizes and prices, please apply to Chas. H. More & Co., Barre, Vt., or to their Chicago office at 53 Dearborn St.”

• Barre, Vermont – Charles H. More & Company  (Advertisement in The Monumental News, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1896, pp.)
  

“View of the largest plant in the world for the manufacture of Granite work.” in Barre, Vermont ("The Monumental News," Jan. 1896)

Chas. H. More & Co., Quarriers, Cutters and Polishers of the Celebrated Barre and other New England Granites.  Also Importers of Swedish and Scotch Granites and Italian Marble Statuary.

Main Office:  Barre, VT. – Foreign Office, 107 Union St., Aberdeen, Scotland – Western Office, 53 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.

• Barre, Vermont – Charles H. More & Company  (Advertisement in The Monumental News, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1896, pp. 74)
  

  Erection of the Iowa State Soldiers Monument at Des Moines, Iowa (The Monumental News, January 1896, pp. 74)

  Erection of the Iowa State Soldiers Monument.  “The accompanying illustration gives a good idea of the work connected with the erection of a monument of the magnitude of the Iowa State Soldiers memorial.  It will not be amiss to repeat some of the figures:  Height, 139 feet; 60 feet square at the base, containing about 22,000 cubic feet of Barre granite.  In the foundation 600,000 vitrified brick was used upon 400 yards of concrete, and when completed the monument will contain some 20 tons of bronze.  The amount of timber used in trestle and scaffolding is about 125,000 feet.  The erection of this monument has been a most successful operation throughout, with no accidents of any kind, and yet handling some of the heaviest blocks of stone ever raised to such a height.  Many of these huge sections of granite have been illustrated from time to time in these columns in the advertisement of Chas. H. More & Co., Barre, Vt.  One of the heaviest of these stones weighed 25 tons and it was raised 110 feet.  The work was commenced by the Shcricker-Rodler Co., contractors, June 19, 1895, and completed, the granite and setting of statue of Victory, Oct. 28, 1895.  Great credit is due to all concerned in the work of erecting Iowa’s soldiers monument.  The comparative rapidity with which it has been prosecuted, the freedom from accident to life or plant, the excellence of the workmanship and materials and the general management of the constructive details are worthy of notice.”

• Barre, Vermont – Clarihew & Gray (Monument Manufacturers and Dealers) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 524.)

Clarihew & Gray, Barre, VT.

Manufacturers and Dealers in Barre, Granite.

For Monumental and Building work, being fully equipped with cutting and polishing plants and all latest improvements including pneumatic tools. We are able to complete successfully with any in the trade. We invite all dealers desiring first-class work to correspond with us.

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