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

• Barre, Vermont – Coburn & Jones (Manufacturers) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 476.)

  Coburn & Jones - Barre, VT.

  Manufacturers of Monuments and General Cemetery Work. Best Barre Granite - Give us your Orders.

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the Consolidated 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 Consolidated Quarry was located “860 feet above the city and N. 75° E. from the top of Millstone Hill, in Barre.” The operator was Wetmore & Morse Granite co. of Montpelier, Vermont. The granite is a “lite Barre,” with a slightly bluish color like the granite in the Wetmore & Morse and Smith Upper quarries, and has a fine to medium texture.

  The quarry was estimated in 1907 to measure “about 300 feet from north to south by as much across and in 1917 was from 75 to 100 feet deep.”

• Barre, Vermont – the Cushman Company  (Advertisement from Granite Marble & Bronze, Vol. 30, No. 10, October 1920, pp. 46)
  

  The Cushman Company, Barre, Vermont

  Magnetic Air Heater for Surface Cutter – Only thing of the kind on the market.  Does away with the old stove method and costs less.  Many now in use in Barre district.

The Cushman Company, Barre, Vermont, Magnetic Air heater for surface cutter advertisement from Granite Marble & Bronze, Vol. 30, No. 10, October 1920, pp. 46

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – James Cordiner Granite 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. 145. (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)

  “James Cordiner’s granite shops are located opposite Central Vermont railroad station. Mr. Cordiner is a practical granite cutter and commenced business in Barre in 1887, and manufactures for wholesale and retail all kinds of monumental and cemetery work. He gives employment to twelve or fifteen hands.”

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the Duffee 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 Duffee quarry was located “west-northwest of and lower than the Smith Upper quarry and southwest of the top of Millstone Hill, in Barre.” The operator was the E. L. Smith & Co. of Barre, Vermont. The granite in this quarry is a “medium Barre” of a medium bluish-gray color (“a trifle darker than ‘ Concord granite’)…” It had a fine texture. Some “dark Barre” granite was also in the Duffee Quarry.

  Accessory minerals: Allanite, zircon, probably also magnetite and pyrite. Secondary minerals: Calcite, usually in the orthoclase, kaolin, one or two white micas, epidote, quartz, chlorite.

  “When quarry was estimated to be about 400 feet east to west on one side and 300 on the other by 200 feet across and about 75 feet in depth.”

• Barre, Vermont – E. C. French (Monument Manufacturer) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 525.)

  E. C. French, Lock Box 60, Barre, VT

  Manufacturer of and Dealer in Monumental Work of all kinds

  From the best Light and Dark Barre Granite..

• Barre, Vermont – Eclat Granite Co. (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 511.)

  Eclat Granite Co. - Barre, Vt.

  Manufacturers of All Kinds of Monumental Work. Statuary and Fine Carving a Specialty.

• Barre, Vermont – the E. L. Smith & Co. (The following information is from the "Notes From Quarry and Shop" section in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XI, No. 6, November, 1895, Frank W. Hoyt, Publisher, New York, pp. 578.)

  "Mayor Smith has sold his entire interest in the granite firm of E. L. Smith & Co., Barre, Vt., to his partners, Donald and John Smith. The purchase includes the quarries and plant. The firm was one of the largest in the city."

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – E. L. Smith & Co., Quarrymen, & Wholesale/Retail Stone Dealers (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. 148. (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)

  “E. L. Smith & Co. (E. L. Smith, John E. Smith, & Donald Smith), quarrymen, are wholesale and retail dealers in rough and finished, light and dark, Barre granite, monumental, cemetery, and statuary work. This firm gives employment to about forty men. Mr. E. L. Smith began business on Cobble Hill, in the spring of 1868, and has continued in the business from that time to the present (1888). He has been associated as partner in several firms, and has been in this special business a longer time than any other man in Barre. In the long time he has been in the business he has furnished granite for the construction of the Methodist seminary and postoffice buildings in Montpelier, the Reform school at Waterbury, and an incalculable amount for numerous other buildings. Mr. Smith was the first in Barre to quarry granite steam drill; and the first to use the electric battery in blasting.”

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – the E. L. Smith & Company  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, April 1903, pp. 227)
  

  E. L. Smith & Co., Barre, VT., Established 1865.
  Quarry Owners and Manufacturers of Light, Medium, and Dark Barre Granite…. 

E. L. Smith & Company, Barre, Vermont  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, April 1903, pp. 227)

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – the E. L. Smith Quarry  (Granite)  (Advertisement from The Monumental News, April 1905, pp. 283)
  

  E. L. Smith & Co., Barre, Vermont
  Quarry Owners and Dealers in Barre Granite – Operating Light, Medium and Dark Quarries

  We are in position to furnish any quality or kind of Barre Granite in the rough or finished.  Our cutting plant is equipped with the latest improved machinery, and we can handle any kind of work in vaults and large monuments.  Strictly wholesale trade.  Stock squared and polished for the trade.  Prices in rough stock and finished work on application.

  J. S. Smith, Representative of New York and vicinity, 955 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Fred L. Kimball, 200 New England Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., Western Representative

E. L. Smith & Co. Granite Quarry, Barre, Vermont,   (Advertisement from The Monumental News, April 1905, pp. 283)

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – the E. L. Smith & Company Quarry  (from The Monumental News, Vol. XXVI, No. 9, Chicago, September, 1914, pp. 563)
  

  Quarries that Produce the Best Granite in the World
  Quarries that Produce Anything in Size and Quantity
  E. L. Smith & Company, Barre, Vermont

E. L. Smith & Company, Barre, Vermont Advertisement, The Monumental News, Sept. 1914, pp. 563 (photo captions:  (top) “A view in our corner of our quarries, showing great roof stones in the rough,” (middle) “Carved by Novelli & Calcagni,” (bottom) “Mammoth roof stone loaded on the car from E. L. Smith & Co., Quarries”)

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the E. L. Smith Lower 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 Smith Lower Quarry was “west northwest of the Duffee quarry near the foot of Millstone Hill and S. 60° W. from its top, in Barre.” The operator was the E. L. Smith & Co., of Barre, Vermont. The granite is a “medium Barre,” although the quarry also produced some “dark Barre.” The quarry was “estimated to be about 250 feet east to west by 200 feet across, and 150 feet in depth.”

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the E. L. Smith Upper 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.)

  Smith Upper Quarry was “southwest of and below the (Wetmore & Morse Quarry), is S. 32° W. of the top of Millstone Hill, in Barre.” The operators were E. L. Smith & Co. of Barre, Vermont. The granite is a “light Barre,” a medium, slightly bluish-gray color with a fine to medium texture.

  Accessory minerals: Pyrite, magnetite, titanite, apatite, zircon. Secondary minerals: Calcite, usually in the orthoclase, kaolin, one or two white micas, and chlorite and epidote.

  At the time of the inspection the quarry had a very irregular outline and measured “about 400 feet in a N. 30° E. direction by 200 feet across and about 50 feet in depth.”

  Granite from this quarry was used as monumental stone. Examples of granite from the quarries of E. L. Smith & Co. are: Tuxbury exedra at Saco, Maine; the pedestal of the equestrian statue of St. Louis (erected by W. R. Hodges) and the Lemp mausoleum in St. Louis, Missouri; the Cluett obelisk “with 44-foot shaft” and the Hageman mausoleum in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Troy, New York; the Fleischmann mausoleum in Cincinnati, Ohio; and the Kaufman mausoleum in Marquette, Michigan. Granite from this quarry also went into the building of the Barre post office.

• Barre, Vermont – E. L. Smith & Company Quarries Advertisement in The Monument and Cemetery Review, October 1926.
  

  E. L. Smith & Co., Quarriers, Barre, Vermont – Build While you Live in Smith Barre

  “The Mitchell memorial has an interesting history.  Mr. Mitchell, for many years a granite worker in the Barre district, determined to execute his own family memorial.  With an ideal as a goal, knowing intimately the characters to be commemorated the result has been an expression which is a real tribute to memory.

  “That a man familiar with various granites, through actual working with them, would choose Smith-Barre for his family memorial is high endorsement of this stock.”

E. L. Smith & Company Quarries, Barre, Vermont, advertisement in The Monument and Cemetery Review, October 1926

• Barre, Vermont - the E. L. Smith & Co. (Advertisement) (from Monumental News-Review Magazine, January 1939, Vol. 51, No. 1.)

  Seventy Years

  “With the advent of 1939, E. L. Smith & Company conclude their 70th year in the production of Smith-Barre Granite.

  “In the spring of 1868, a few weeks before General Grant became the Republican nominee for President, the late Emery L. Smith founded the organization which to this day bears his name. A veteran of the Civil War, the first Mayor of the incorporated City of Barre and a pioneer in the development of the Barre granite industry. Mr. Smith was a resourceful executive whose vision, enterprise and exacting standards rapidly and firmly established Smith-Barre Granite in the supremacy of monumental materials in America.

  “The E. L. Smith & Company quarries were the first in Barre to install permanent derricks; first to install facilities for operation in the winter months; first to utilize the electric battery for blasting; first to use the steam driven drill; first to adopt compressed air for drilling and first to introduce the plug drill which revolutionized quarry operations. Many of these innovations in both production and service were inaugurated by the late Donald Smith, president of the company, whose sons, Donald W. Smith and J. Wendell Smith are now most successfully directing the management of this organization.

  “The prestige of a Smith-Barre Granite, sustained for nearly three quarters of a century, emanates from the enthusiastic endorsement and expanding patronage of quality craftsmen and quality manufacturers. E. L. Smith & Company do not advertise to the consumer. E. L. Smith & Company do not advertise to the consumer nor do they resort to high pressure merchandising. Craftsmen and manufacturers - the men who know - are responsible for the ever increasing demand for Smith-Barre Granite. The consistent patronage of these expert workers-in-stone, together with the acclaim of cemetery officials throughout the nation, give testimony that Smith-Barre indeed the ‘choice product of the world famed Barre quarries.’

  “To the quality craftsmen of the United Sates and Canada, to the quality manufacturers of Barre and other production centers, and to the cemetery officials of both nations...these Anniversary Greetings from the quarriers of Smith-Barre Granite, ‘Medium of the Masters.’

  E. L. Smith & Co., Barre, Vt.

•  Barre, Vermont – the E. L. Smith Quarry (postcard photograph No. 12; Pub. by Rudy’s Post Card Service, 34 Knollin St., Malden, Mass.; “Lusterchrome” Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Made only by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston 15, Mass.; Color Photo by Stephen Warner)

  E. L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont “A granite quarry, Barre, Vt. The quarries in Barre are the largest in the world. Pictured here is the E. L. Smith quarry.”

• Barre, Vermont – Eaton Studio – the F. C. Eaton, Barre, Vermont, Monumental Catalog – early 1900s  (“We take pleasure in bringing to your notice the Barre Granite Manufacturers represented in this book, each manufacturer having a page with 12 original designs….” List of manufacturers: Giudici Bros.; J. A. Martinson; Bond & Kidder; Burke Bros.; Eclat Granite Co.; Littlejohn; Odgers & Milne; C. Bianchi & Sons; Abbiati & Bros.; McMillan & Son; and North Barre Granite Co. (On the inside back cover of the book there is a sticker that reads: “Tell ‘em you saw it in Rock Products, 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., Quarry and Monument Trade.”)

  Front cover of the F. C. Eaton, Barre, Vermont, monumental catalog	Inside front cover listing the companies whose monuments are included in this catalog

  	Three examples of the monuments presented in the F. C. Eaton, Barre, Vermont, monumental catalog

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the Empire Dark 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 Empire Dark Quarry was located “southwest of the Milne & Wylie quarry and about south-southwest of the top of Millstone Hill in Barre, just north of the Williamstown line.” The operator was Boutwell, Milne & Varnum Co. of Montpelier, Vermont. The granite is similar to that found in the Bruce Quarry.

  The Empire Dark Quarry opened about 1888. When measured it was about 375 feet in a N. 75 ° E. direction by 200 feet across and had a depth from 75 to 120 feet in 1907.

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont - the Empire Light 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 Empire Light Quarry was “about 800 feet east southeast of the Milne quarry, on the north side of the southern road from Websterville to East Barre.” The operator was E. L. Smith & Co. of Barre, Vermont. The granite is “light and medium Barre, which color varies from light medium to medium, slightly bluish gray color with fine to medium texture.

  The Empire Light Granite Quarry opened about 1889. In 1907 the estimated measurements of the quarry were “about 375 by 200 feet and from 10 to 50 feet deep.” In 1917 the quarry was not in operation.

• Barre, Washington County, Vermont – the Emslie & Coburn Granite Works (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. 145. (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)

  “Emslie & Coburn’s granite works are located opposite the Central Vermont railroad station. The firm, William Emslie and Alexander Coburn, practical granite cutters, commenced business in the spring of 1886. They turn out monumental and statuary work and all kinds of Barre granite, are wholesale and retail dealers, and employ sixteen men.”

• Barre, Vermont – Enterprise Granite Co. (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 519.)

  Enterprise Granite Co., Barre, VT.

  Manufacturers of Light and Dark Barre Granite Monuments.

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