In a 2018 photo, an overview of the deep 250-foot quarry area at Swenson Granite. It is time-consuming and expensive to move things and people into and out of a 250-foot hole. The difficulty isn’t ...

In a 2018 photo, an overview of the deep 250-foot quarry area at Swenson Granite. It is time-consuming and expensive to move things and people into and out of a 250-foot hole. The difficulty isn’t ...

Jul. 5—CONCORD — It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. But last month, the last commercial granite quarry in New Hampshire was quietly shut ...

Editor’s note: This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont’s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. Many of these articles are based on audio/videotaped ...

As water dripped down the cold face of the granite wall, I ran my fingers over the veins of pegmatite. Farther along the trail, I traced the grooves made by chisels decades – if not several hundred ...

HINGHAM -- Out of sight between routes 3 and 53 in South Hingham, the James Bristol Jr. family operates a big, deep quarry – 35 acres of stepped rock faces and haul roads as much as 300 feet below the ...