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  • Barre, Vermont – Rock of Ages Granite Quarry – Also see the “Graniteville, Vermont” section of our web site for more information and photographs of the Rock of Ages granite quarry.
  • Barre / Graniteville, Vermont – Rock of Ages Corporation (present-day company)

  • Rock of Ages “Barre Granite” videos also available include:

  • Barre / Graniteville, Vermont – Rock of Ages Quarry images/photographs presented by Edward Burtynsky, photographer, on ArtNet.
  • Barre / Graniteville, Washington County, Vermont – “Star Trek: The Big Cliff,” blog by David B. Williams, May 13, 2009, about the Rock of Ages (E. L. Smith) granite quarry used in the new Star Trek movie. (More information on the new Star Trek movie can be obtained on Wikipedia, Star Trek (film) 2009.)
  • Barre / Graniteville, Vermont – Rock of Ages Granite Quarries

    (colorized postcard photograph, 2261-30; made by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A.; no postmark, early 1900s)

    "Largest Block of Granite Ever Quarried: Vermont ranks first in the production of granite and in Barre, the Granite Center, are located the Rock of Ages quarries which are the most extensive yet developed anywhere. Here are shown 300 workmen stationed on a block 200 feet long, 80 feet wide and 24 feet thick. It weighed 69,000,000 Lbs. and 1700 flat cars were required to transport it."

    		Colorized postcard photograph, 2261-30
  • Barre / Graniteville, Vermont – Rock of Ages Granite Quarry.

    (color postcard photograph #E-9017; Teknitone Process by E.B. Thomas, Cambridge, Mass.; postmark October 1, 1952)

    "The world's largest granite quarry; 40 acres carved out of the mountain top. The derrick in photograph is 110 feet tall. Visitors always welcome."

    		Barre, Vermont - Rock of Ages Granite Quarry

  • The Rock of Ages Magazine, November 1927, Rock of Ages Corporation, Barre, Vermont,  Vol. V, No. 5. “A little booklet edited by Athol R. Bell, and published monthly by the Rock of Ages Corporation, Barre, Vermont as a part of its service to the monumental granite industry.”

    Front cover of “The Rock of Ages Magazine,” November 1927, Barre, Vermont. Barre’s main business thoroughfare became over night the railroad center for an area measuring fifty miles in four directions…Almost providentially two Rock of Ages engines were high and dry on Barre Hill. Several levels of activity are disclosed in this half-tone of a little corner in the Rock of Ages quarries, Barre, Vermont

    Front cover of “The Rock of Ages Magazine,” November 1927, Barre, Vermont.

    “Barre’s main business thoroughfare became over night the railroad center for an area measuring fifty miles in four directions…Almost providentially two Rock of Ages engines were high and dry on Barre Hill.  Preceding down the big grade to Barre and thence over the trolley tracks, they were able to make a quick beginning in the first work of rehabilitation.”

    “Several levels of activity are disclosed in this half-tone of a little corner in the Rock of Ages quarries.  Ladders dimly seen at various altitudes will give the reader an idea of the comparative depths.”
    Among distinguished family memorials in the cemeteries of Leavenworth, Kansas, the Hoge tribute from the plant of Marrion & O’Leary, Barre, has been widely admired Retail advertising carried on by I. D. Miller, Quarryville, Pennsylvania The Scipio Rosettes, six in number, are the outstanding ornamental features of this axed Rock of Ages memorial erected last month on the family plot of J. M. Boutwell.

    “Among distinguished family memorials in the cemeteries of Leavenworth, Kansas, the Hoge tribute from the plant of Marrion & O’Leary, Barre, has been widely admired.  It is one of many Rock of Ages monuments erected this year by Ben F. Heis of Leavenworth.”

    “Retail advertising carried on by I. D. Miller, Quarryville, Pennsylvania, dealer includes a number of resourceful devices, among which is a scoreboard in the local baseball park.”

    “The Scipio Rosettes, six in number, are the outstanding ornamental features of this axed Rock of Ages memorial erected last month on the family plot of J. M. Boutwell.  It is one of the Barclay Bros. 1927 masterpieces and a more extended description of the tribute will be found on the opposite page.”
    Indoor display made by the Huron, S. D., Marble & Granite Works. Heavy seas on the C. V. caught in the vortex of the raging flood, a yard engine of the Central Vermont railroad left what remained of the track Such scenes of ruin were all too frequently repeated in the track of the great flood which engulfed the Barre District here

    “The indoor exhibit season offers many opportunities for the memorial craftsman to advertise effectively.  An example of what can be accomplished in a relatively small space is found in this picture of a display made by the Huron, S. D., Marble & Granite Works.”

    “Heavy seas on the C. V. caught in the vortex of the raging flood, a yard engine of the Central Vermont railroad left what remained of the track, burying its nose in the bank of the riser.  In the distance is the plant of Comolli & Co., one of the many Rock of Ages manufacturers who made a remarkably quick recovery from the effects of the high water.”

    “Such scenes of ruin were all too frequently repeated in the track of the great flood which engulfed the Barre District here, at North Barre, is shown a curious hotchpotch of wrecked automobiles, oil tanks and Rock of Ages saw blocks.”
    Honoring a librarian in Portville, New York, Mrs. Cummings was a long-time and faithfully custodian of the public library Many values when brought together – the Erbstein memorial, commemorating a noted Chicago lawyer, was completed in axed and polished Rock of Ages One of several Rock of Ages memorials which Cross Bros. Co., Northfield, exhibited at the convention of Memorial Craftsmen in Chicago, Illinois in 1927

    “Honoring a librarian in Portville, New York, Mrs. Cummings was a long-time and faithfully custodian of the public library.  When she passed away this year citizens of the town subscribed a fund to mark her grave with the Rock of Ages tablet pictured here.  It was made by the South Barre Granite Co. and erected by the late G. A. Robertson, memorial dealer in Olean, New York.”

    “Many values when brought together – the Erbstein memorial, commemorating a noted Chicago lawyer, was completed in axed and polished Rock of Ages.  Canton Bros., Chioldi Bros., and, as retailers, the Chicago Monument Co., collaborated in this convincing tribute.”

    “Tonal values are emphasized in this tribute, one of several Rock of Ages memorials which Cross Bros. Co., Northfield, exhibited at the convention of Memorial Craftsmen in Chicago this year….”
  • Barre (south of) / Graniteville, Vermont – Rock of Ages Corp. Granite Quarry & Mill (circa 1967) (From Mining and Mineral Operations in the United States: A Visitor’s Guide, by Staff, Bureau of Mines, Area Mineral Resource Offices, U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967, pp. 72.)

    “Vermont is known in minerals centers for high quality ornamental stone.”

    “Vt. 14. - A few miles south of Barre, the granite quarry and mill of Rock of Ages Corp. can be visited. The company maintains an exhibit building for tourists. Barre is a leading area for production of monumental granite.”

  • Barre / Graniteville, Vermont – Rock of Ages Granite Quarry presented by Webshots (photographs) (Type "Rock of Ages" or "quarry"in the search field to locate the photographs.)

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