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  • 1889 Vermont Marble Company Price List: Rutland, Sutherland Falls, & Dark Marble, Proctor, Vermont, 415 pp. (cemetery stones, monuments, and accessories) Due to the size of this book, I have broken the book into 4 sections in PDF. (Parts 1, 2, & 3, are about 14 MB; Part 4 is 17+ MB.) You can click on the thumbnail image of the “Index” page below to find the section of the book you wish to view, and then you can click on one of the following links to view that section — Part 1. Title page through pp. 99 — Part 2. pp. 100-199 — Part 3. pp. 200-299 — Part 4. pp. 300-415 (PDF). Peggy B. Perazzo

    1889 Vermont Marble Company Price List: Rutland, Sutherland Falls, & Dark Marble, Proctor, Vermont title page

    Title Page

    1889 Vermont Marble Company Price List: Rutland, Sutherland Falls, & Dark Marble, Proctor, Vermont Index

    Index / Contents

  • “An Account of the Discoveries in Vermont Geology of the Rev. Augustus Wing,” by James D. Dana, Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 13, 1877, pp. 332-347, 405-419.
  • “‘And the Men Who Made Them’: The Signed Gravestones of New England,” by Sue Kelly and Anne Williams, in Markers II, pp. 1-103, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, USA)
  • “‘And the Men Who Made Them’: The Signed Gravestones of New England , 1984 Additions,” by Sue Kelly and Anne Williams, in Markers III. Association for Gravestone Studies.
  • “Another Historic Vermont Monument is Restored (Pittsford, Vermont),” by Martin N. Ralph, in Monumental News, Combining Monumental News, Granite Marble & Bronze, The Monument and Cemetery Review, May 1950, pp. 42-43.
  • “The Architecture of the Granite Shed,” By Paul Wood, November 5, 2007, in the Barre Montpelier Times Argus. (New England States: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.)
  • Atlas of Bennington County, Vermont, F. W. Beers, F. W. Beers, A. D. Ellis and G. G. Soule, New York, 1869. (Iincludes information on stone quarries in the area.)
  • Barre Granite Heritage with Guide to the Cemeteries, by Donald G. Allen, Friends of the Aldrich Public Library, 1997.
  • "Barre Granite Quarries, Barre, Vermont," Centennial Field Guide, D. A. Richter, Northeast Section, Geological Society of America, pp. 239-242, 1987.
  • “Barre in The ‘Nineties,” (Barre, Vermont) by William Barclay, son of the first William Barclay, founder of the pioneer firm of Barclay Brothers, in Monumental News Magazine, Vol. 51, No. 12, December, 1939, pp. 548-550. (Includes information on the progressive use of new tools and equipment in the granite quarry industry from 1899 up through 1939.)
  • Barre, Vermont: An Annotated Bibliography, March, 1979, compiled by Daniel Beavin, Alice Blachly, Richard Hathaway, and Andrew Sacher, for the Aldrich Public Library, Barre, Vermont.
  • “Bed Rock Geology of the East Barre Area, Vermont,” by V. R. Murthy, Vermont Geological. Survey Bulletin 10, 1957.
  • The Book of Vermont Marble: A Reference for Architects and Builders; Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, 3d ed., publisher: Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vt., 1929, 45 pp.
  • "Brandon to Bennington, Vermont," by G. W. Baine, 16th Internat. Geol. Cong., Guidebook 1, 1933, pp. 80-97.
  • Brief Report on the Geology of Plymouth: Report on the Geology of Vermont, Vol. 2, by A. D. Hager, 1861, pp. 691, 731, 732, 775, 776, Pl. XVIII. (Literature on the eastern Vermont marbles.)
  • "Building and Ornamental Stones," by J. S. Newberry, Reports and Awards, U. S. Centennial Com. Internal. Exhib. 1876, Vol. 3, groups 1, 2, 1880, pp. 137-160. (Includes information on the marbles of Vermont.)
  • The Calcite Marble and Dolomite of Eastern Vermont, Bulletin 589, by T. Nelson Dale, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1915.
  • "The Carrara of America," by Orin Edson Crooker, New England Magazine, September 1903, pgs. 97-109.
  • Carved in Stone: A History of the Barre Granite Industry, by Rod Clarke, Rock of Ages Corporation, 1989.
  • Catalogue of Minerals Found in the State of Vermont, by Frederick Hall, Hartford, 1824, pp. 29, 30.
  • The Central Vermont Marble Belt; Guidebook, prepared by George W. Bain, Amherst, Massachusetts Amherst College, 1938?, 23 pp.
  • Charter, By-Laws and Reports of Professor C. H. Hitchcock, Professor J.S. Newberry, and others, Central Vermont Marble Co., New York: Tower, Gildersleeve & Co., 1873, 32 pp.
  • "Chemical Notes on the Composition of the Roofing Slates of Eastern New York and Western Vermont," by W. F. Hillebrand, in Nineteenth Annual Report, Part 3, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1899, pp. 301-305.
  • “Colchester Woman Builds Reputation in Stoneworks, ” H. J. Simon, Burlington Free Press, October 17, 2005.
  • "The Colored Slates of Vermont and New York," by D. M. Larrabee, Eng. and Min. Jour., Vol. 140, No. 12, 1939, pp. 47-53; 1940, Vol. 141, No. 1, pp. 48-53.
  • The Commercial Granites of New England – Bulletin 738, by Dale, T. Nelson, United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923. (The states covered in this book are: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.)
  • The Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by Dale, T. Nelson, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.
  • The Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.
  • Conducting Natural Resource Inventories in Vermont: A Case Study of the Town of Belvidere, Vermont, M. Miller, Thesis Project, University of Vermont, 2004.
  • "A Contribution to the Structural Relations of the Granitic Intrusions of Bethel, Barre, and Woodbury, Vermont," by R. Balk, Vermont State Geologist Annual Report, 1925-1926, 1927, pp. 50-72.
  • "Country Unbound: Vermont," by Noel Perrin, National Geographic Traveler (October 1999), pp. 184-86.
  • Deadly Dust, Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America, by David Rossner and Gerald Markowitz, Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • “Death Italo-American Style: Reflections on Modern Martyrdom,” Robert McGrath, in Markers IV, pp. 107-113, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Italian American, Vermont, USA )
  • "Deformation of Yule Marble," (Colorado) by D. Griggs, et al., Parts I-III, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., Vol. 62, 1951-56; Part IV, vol. 62, pp. 1385-1406; Parts V and VI, Vol. 64, pp. 1327-1352; Part VII, Vol. 67, pp. 1259-1294.
  • Design Book No. 5. Memorials, Vermont Marble Co., 1930, 88 pp. (Copy located in the Degolyer Library Collection in the “Trade Catalogs” section. Degolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.) [PDF]
  • “Do-It-Yourself Immortality: Writing One’s Own Epitaph,” by Karl S. Guthke, in Markers XX, pp. 110-153, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, USA, Crete, England, France, Italy, Germany, Samoa)
  • Dorset: In the Shadow of the Marble Mountain, by Tyler Resch, published for the Dorset Historical Society by Phoenix Publishing, West Kennebunk, Maine, 1989.
  • The Dorset Trail, by George Holley Gilbert, published by the Dorset Science Club, 1928.
  • Dorset’s Marble Mountain, published by the Dorset Historical Society, Dorset, Vermont, 1972. (Dorset’s marble industry summarizes research of Ernest West and Arthur Gilbert.)
  • “Enos Clark, Vermont Gravestone Carver,” Margaret R. Jenks, in Jessie Lie Farber, ed., “Stonecutters and Their Works,” Markers IV, pp. 174-176, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Vermont, USA)
  • Epitaphs (booklet in PDF), by the Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, early 1900s.
  • “Experiments on The Expansion and Contraction of Building Stones by Variation of Temperature,” Am. Jour. Sci., by W. C. Bartlett, 1st ser., vol. 22, 1832, pp. 136-140.
  • Field Genealogy being the record of all the field family In America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700; Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus De la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine. Volume 1 of 2 by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago, Illinois, Historian and Genealogist, Hammond Press, Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1901.
  • “The Field Houses in Dorset,” by Anne E. Gilbert, circa 1961. (This document is located in the Manuscript Collection of the Dorset Historical Society. This article is about the Field family of Dorset, Vermont.)
  • First Annual Report on the Geology of Vermont, by C. B. Adams, Burlington, 1845, pp. 39-43. (Includes information on marble in Vermont)
  • “Folk Art on Gravestones: The Glorious Contrast,” by Charles Bergengren, Markers II, pp. 171-183, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, USA)
  • "A Forceful Vermont Industry," The Vermonter, by George James, published by Chas. R. Cummings, White River Junction, Vermont, January, 1911, pp. 9-20. (Hardwick, Vermont, granite industry)
  • Gazetteer and Business Directory of Washington County, Vermont, 1783-1889, by Hamilton Child, Lyman Simpson Hayes, Matt Bushnell Jones, William Adams, and Theodore Graham Lewis, 1889, published by The Syracuse Journal Company, Printers, 1889, 624 pp. (The “Gazetteer of Towns” section of the book covers the following towns that include information on the local stone industry of that time: Barre, pp. 142-148; Montpelier, pp.320-399; Northfield, pp. 406-434; and Woodbury, pp. 518-529. In Part II of the Business Directory, people who worked in the local stone industry are included.) (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer.)
  • Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, by Hiram Carleton, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.
  • "The Geological Features of the Marble Belt," by Ezra Brainerd, Papers and Proc. Middlebury Historical Society, Vol. 1, pt. 2, 1885, pp. 9-21.
  • "Geological Sections Across New Hampshire and Vermont," by Charles H. Hitchcock, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 1, 1884, p. 155.
  • The Geography and Geology of Vermont, by Zadock Thompson, published in Burlinton, Vt.: Published by the Author, Chauncey Goodrich, Printer 1848. 220 pgs.
  • "Geology of the Town of Swanton," by George E. Edson, Sixth Report State Geologist of Vermont, 1907-8, pp. 217-219.
  • "The Geology of Vermont," by Henry M. Seely, The Vermonter, Vol. 5, No. 7, 1901, pp. 53-67.
  • Getting Acquainted with Marble (booklet), Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont.
  • The Granite City, Barre, Vermont: Early Settlement, History, Resources, Development and Progress, William H. Jeffrey (ed.), East Burke, Vermont, Concord, N. H.: The Rumford Press, 1903.
  • "The Granite Industry of Barre, Vermont," written by George H. Gilman of Claremont, New Hampshire, from Mine and Quarry Magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. IV. No. 3 - January, 1910, pages 358 - 366. (The article discusses the equipment at the Barclay Brothers facilities.)
  • “The Granite Industry (of Barre, Vermont),” (PDF document) by W. F. Scott, in the Inter-State Journal, July-August, 1902, Vol. 5, Nos. 4-5.
  • "Granite Workers and the Struggle Against Silicosis, 1890-1960," Labor History, February, 2001, by David R. Seager.
  • The Granites of Vermont, Bulletin 404, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1909, 138 pp.

  • Harrison Granite Company Clientele Catalog (& Monuments) (pdf), Harrison Granite Company, Established 1845, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Quarries & Works:  Barre, Vermont, January 1, 1918, 24 pp.

  • History of Bennington County, Vermont, by Lewis Case Aldrich, Syracuse, New York, D. Mason & Co., 1889.
  • History of Rutland County, Vermont, by H. P. Smith and W. S. Rann (editors), D. Mason & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N.Y., 1886. (Reprinted by Heritage Books, Inc., 1993)
  • The History of Rutland, Vermont – 1761 - 1861, by Dawn D. Hance, The Rutland Historical Society, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, Rutland: Academy Books, 1991.
  • History of the Granite Industry of New England, Vol. 1 and 2, by Arthur W. Brayley, The National Association of Granite Industries of the United States, 1913.
  • History of Vermont, by Walter Hill Crockett, The Century History Co., New York, 1921.
  • History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical, by Zadock Thompson, Burlington, 1842, pp. 14-20, 40-58.
  • The History of Vermont; with Descriptions, Physical and Topographical, by Rev. Hosea Beckley, Brattleboro, VT: published by George S. Salisbury, 1846, 396 pp. (A few of the subjects include: Quarries, and factories.)
  • “Horses, Oxen and Granite,” (online article) by Paul Wood, January 7, 2008, in the Barre Montpelier Times Argus.
  • Hower’s Lightning Slate Reckoner (1888/1904) (PDF) on 33 Practical Sizes Roofing Slate, being a complete and most convenient system of computing the amount in “squares” of any given number of slate…a very convenient ratio on each of the thirty-three different sizes for each two, three and four inches lap, mapping ninety-nine different ratios, together with rules and practical information, To Quarrymen, Operators on Slate, Slate-roofers and others, by F. M. Hower, Proprietor of the Peach Hill Slate Quarry and President of the Eagle Slate Company, Cherryville, Pennsylvania, 1884, 99 pp.

    Contents of this book include: “History of the Slate Industry,” “As to Cost of Maintenance and Repairs,” “How Slate are Put On,” “How to Measure a Roof,” “Punching,” “Slate as Siding,” “Weight of Slate,” “Slate” (dimensions), “Table of Ratios,” “How to Use the Tables,” and “Number of Squares in a plane Roof.”

  • “‘I Never Regretted Coming to Africa’: The Story of Harriet Ruggles Loomis’ Gravestone,” by Laurel K. Gabel, in Markers XVI, Association for Gravestone Studies, 1999. (Connecticut, Vermont, USA)
  • Images of America: Caledonia County (Vermont), by Dolores E. Ham, Arcadia Publishing, 2000, 128 pp. ISBN: 0738504815. (This book covers in detail the people and their early agriculture and industry, including the men working at the Woodbury Granite Quarry in addition to many other subjects.)
  • Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Vermont Being Burlington, Winooski, Rutland, West Rutland, Brandon, Fair Haven, Poultney, Castleton, St. Albans, Swanton, Enosburg Falls, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Monpelier, Barre, Waterbury, St. Johnsbury, Lyndonville, Lyndon, Hardwick, Bennington, Springfield, White River Junction, Vergennes, Middlebury, Northfield and Morrisville, published by American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1891, 217 pp. (This book is available on Google Book Search for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)
  • "The Italian Story in Vermont," by Mari Tomasi, Vermont History 28: 1, 1960.
  • Keeping Up With Marble: Sketching the Growth of a Great Industry and Telling Why Marble Has Kept in the Lead, Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, ca. 1912.
  • The Last Italian, by Don Myers on his SculptureDisplay.com web site (The link from the following information was obtained is no longer available. If you have a new web address for this article, I would appreciate it if you would let me know what it is. Peggy B. Perazzo.) <http://sculpturedisplay.com/The%20Last%20Italian.html> <http://sculpturedisplay.com/index.html>
  • Lettering in Marble: A few plates and a few words of explanation - all bearing on the subject of lettering as it applies to the memorial trade, issued by the Vermont Marble Company, Procter, Vermont. (in PDF format)
  • "The Limestone Quarries of Eastern New York, Western Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut," by H. Ries, in Seventeenth Annual Report, Part 3 (continued), United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1896, pp. 795-811.
  • A Location Guide for Rockhounds, (PDF) Collected by Robert C. Beste, PG, St. Louis, Missouri: Hobbitt Press, 2nd ed., December 1996, 148 pp. (Includes chapters on “Mineral Locations by State,” “Appendix and Glossary,” and “Bibliography.”)
  • "Marble," Eighteenth Annual Report, U. S. Geological Survey, Part 5, continued, William C. Day, 1897, pp. 975-992.
  • "Marble," William C. Day, Twentieth Annual Report, U. S. Geol. Survey, Part. 6, continued, 1899, pp. 405, 406, 447, 455.

  • Marble Color Plates: Imported and Domestic Catalog (PDF), Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, no date of publication, 50 pp.

    Title pg. Vermont Marble Co. Marble Color Plates: Imported and Domestic catalog, no pub. date

    Title page of Catalog, Vermont Marble Co.

    Vermont Marble Co. Marble Color Plates: Imported and Domestic catalog, no pub. date, list of colors

    List of Marble Color Plates: Imported and Domestic

  • "Marble, Granite and Slate Industries of Vermont," Field Trip Guidebook T362, C. A. Ratte and D. G. Ogden, American Geophysical Union, 18 pp., 1989.
  • "The Marble Industry of Vermont," by G. H. Perkins, Vermont State Geologist 18th Report, 1931-1932, 1932, pp. 1-315.
  • "The Marble Mountains," by Edwin B. Child, originally published in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, May 1905; reprinted in Tales of Old New England, published by Castle Books, Inc., Secaucus, New Jersey, 1986. (Dorset stone quarries)
  • The Marbles of Vermont, by Albert D. Hager, 1858, 15 pp.
  • Migration From Vermont, by Lewis D. Stilwell, Vermont Historical Society, E. Hildreth & Co., Brattleboro, 1937. (Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, Vermont, 1948)
  • Mineralogical Characterization of the Shelburne Marble a Vermont Marble Test Stone Used to Study the Effects of Acid Rain, by Elaine S. McGee, publisher: Denver, Colorado(?), Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey: (Books and Open-file Reports Section, distributor), 1987.
  • “Modern Art Rescues Colonial Craftsmanship (South Woodstock ),” by Martin N. Ralph, Vermont, in Monumental News, Combining Monumental News, Granite Marble & Bronze, The Monument and Cemetery Review, May 1950, pp. 42-43.
  • Monograph on marble, titled, A Report on the General History of the Marble Industry in Dorset and Danby in which Thirty-five Quarries and Prospects are Considered, with Especial Emphasis on the Historical Side, by Ernest H. West, 1921, revised 1936. (Available at the Dorset Historical Society.)
  • A Narrative of a Tour Through the State of Vermont from April 27 to June 12, 1789, by Rev. Nathan Perkins, Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1930.
  • "Note on the Discovery of Fossils in the 'Winooski Marble' at Swanton, Vermont," by E. Billings, Am. Jour. Sci., 3d Ser., Vol. 10, 1872, pp. 145, 146.
  • “A New Bank Building,” (PDF) in the Inter-State Journal, January 1902, published monthly by Chas. R. Cummings, White River Junction, VT. (The Ootauquechee Savings Bank in Woodstock, Vermont.)
  • New Lives in the Valley: Slate Quarries and Quarry Villages in North Wales, New York, and Vermont,1850-1920, Gwilym R. Roberts, publisher: R M Distributors, 1998, ISBN: 0966829204.
  • "Notice of the Flexible or Elastic Marble of Berkshire County," by Chester Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 9, 1825, p. 241.
  • "On Serpentine Rock (Vermont)," by A. A. Hayes, Am. Jour. Sci., 2d ser., Vol. 21, 1856, pp. 382-385.
  • "On the Lower Cambrian Age of the Stockbridge Limestone," by J. E. Wolff, Bull. Geol. Soc. America, Vol. 2, 1891, pp. 331-338.
  • "On the Relations of the Geology of Vermont to That of Berkshire," by James D. Dana, Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., Vol. 14, 1877, pp. 37-48, 132-140, 202-207, 257-264.
  • "On the Structure and Age of the Stockbridge Limestone in the Vermont Valley," by T. Nelson Dale, Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 3, 1891, pp. 514-519.
  • "On the Structure of the Ridge Between the Taconic and Green Mountain Ranges in Vermont," by T. Nelson Dale, Fourteenth Annual Report U. S. Geological Survey, Part 2, 1894, pp. 525-549.

  • “Our Building Stone Supply” (pdf)  (Quarrying in the eastern United States circa 1887), from the Scientific American:  A weekly journal of practical information, art, science, mechanics, chemistry, and manufactures, New York, Vol. LVI.  No. 2 (new series), January 8, 1887.

  • Pirie’s Select Barre Granite Quarries, Barre, Vermont, undated booklet published by the Pirie Granite Company. (Based on the information in the booklet, it appears the booklet was published between 1933 and 1940.)
  • Preliminary Report on the Geology of Vermont, by Edward Hitchcock, published by E. P. Walton, Montpelier, 1859.
  • Preliminary Report on the Natural History of Vermont, by Augustus Young, 1856.
  • "The Relation of the Strength of Marble to Its Structure," by George W. Perry, Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 52, 1891, p. 453.
  • Report on the Economical Geology, Physical Geography and Scenery of Vermont, Being a Portion of the Geological Report of the State, Made by Prof. Hitchcock and his assistants. To which is added a description of some of the Lower Silurian fossils found in northern Vermont and Canada, by E. Billings. F.G.S., by Albert D. Hager, Claremont, N.H., printed by the Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1862. 4 p. l., (5)-252 pp.
  • Report on the Marble, Slate, and Granite Industries of Vermont, by G. H. Perkins, 1898 (granite, pp. 51-68).
  • Report of State Geologist on the Mineral Resources of Vermont, 1899-1900, by G. H. Perkins, (Report of State Geologist on the Mineral Resources of Vermont, 1899-1900, by G. H. Perkins) (slate, pp. 17-30; granite, pp. 57-77), 1900.
  • Report on Mineral Industries in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890, David T. Day, (Slate, distribution of quarries, production, labor, and wages, pp. 662-665, 1892; Marble, pp. 621-630.)
  • Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont, 1903-1904, by George H. Perkins, Fourth of Series. Montpelier, VT: Argus and Patrick Printing House, 1904.
  • Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont, 1905-1906, Fifth of Series, by George H. Perkins, Montpelier, VT: Argus and Patriot Press, 1906.
  • Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont, 1907-1908, by George H. Perkins, 1908.
  • Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Vermont, 1911-1912, Eighth of Series, George H. Perkins, Montpelier, VT: Capital City Press, 1912.
  • Report on the Geology of Vermont, Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical, Edward Hitchcock assisted by Albert D. Hager, Edward Hitchcock, Jr., Charles H. Hitchcock, 1861, Vol. 1, pp. 394-424; Vol. 2, pp. 690-692, 751-780.
  • Report on the Marble, Slate, and Granite Industries of Vermont, by G. H. Perkins, 1898, pp. 10-42.
  • Reports of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont, by G. H. Perkins, Third, for 1901-2, pp. 41-44, 88-90; Fourth, for 1903-4, pp. 44-47, 143, Pls. XX-XXIV; Fifth, for 1905-6, pp. 4-7, 53-61; Sixth, for 1907-8, pp. 9-32, 189-209, 221-264, Pls. I-VI, XXXIX; Seventh, for 1909-10, pp. 298,308-309, 318-320, 332-336, 349-351, Pls. LII, LXVII, LXIX-LXXI.
  • Rock-Bursts in the Granite Quarries at Barre, Vermont, Circular 13, by Walter S. White, United States Geological Survey, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., 1946.
  • "Rock of Ages - Rock Solid – Kurt Swenson, of Rock of Ages in Barre and Swenson Granite Co. in New Hampshire, Started in The Quarries and Wound Up in The CEO's Office," by Amy Souza, Business Travel Guide - Vermont, Fall/Winter 2001-2001 (Vermont Guides).
  • The Rock of Ages Story, by Todd Patton, Rock of Ages Corporation, 2003.
  • “The Rule Family: Vermont Gravestone Carvers and Marble Dealers,” by Ann M. Cathcart, in Markers XIX, Association for Gravestone Studies, 2002. (New York, Vermont, USA)
  • "Rutland County Marble, with a History of the Marble Industry of Vermont and a Statement of Comparative Value," by J. E. Manley, First Annual Report, Vermont State Board Agr., Man. And Min., 1872, pp. 656-666.
  • The Rutland Herald History: A Bicentennial Chronicle, Rutland Herald, by Tyler Resch, The Herald Association, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1995.
  • Rutland in Retrospect, by Robert Edward West; Robert T White, Rutland Historical Society, Rutland, Vt., 1978, 176 pp., ISBN: 0914960113.
  • The Rutland Road, by Jim Shaughnessy, Howell-North Books, San Diego, Calif., 1964. (About the Rutland Railroad, which ran through Vermont and northern New York for more than a hundred years.)
  • "Saccharoid Azoic Limestone," Brief Report on the Geology of Plymouth: Report on the Geology of Vermont, by C. H. Hitchcock, Vol. 1, pp. 555-558; vol. 2, Pl. I. See also Limestone, Vol. 2, pp. 748, 749. (literature on the eastern Vermont marbles)
  • “Samuel Dwight: Vermont Gravestone Cutter,” Nancy Jean Melin, in Jessie Lie Farber, ed., “Stonecutters and Their Works,” Markers IV, pp. 160-165, Association for Gravestone Studies. (New York, Vermont, USA)
  • Second Annual Report on the Geology of Vermont, by C. B. Adams, Burlington, 1846, pp. 233-236. (Includes information on marble in Vermont.)
  • "Slate in Maine, Pennsylvania, Vermont (northern), Virginia, and West Virginia" by T. Nelson Dale, Bulletin 260, Contributions to Economic Geology, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904-1905, pp. 486-488.
  • The Slate Industry of Vermont, by Fillmore C. Earney, The Journal of Geography, Volume LXII, No. 7, October, 1963.
  • Sources of Memorial Ornamentation (PDF), by Henry Powell Hopkins, A.M., B.Arch., A.I.A., Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, printed by the Barta Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1924, 44 pp. (From the Forward: “This brief outline of ornamentation as related to memorial design has been written under the encouragement of Capt. E.R. Morse of the Vermont Marble Company and in the belief that there is need for a simple and practical presentation on the subject. It is mainly for the memorial craftsman and his salesmen that this work is produced and it is the writer’s desire to make some contribution…to a better knowledge of memorial ornamentation in the retail selling field. Correct ornament invariably has an historic derivation which can be traced and which gains meaning if its origin and the structural or artistic reasons for its use are understood.”)
  • "Special Reports on Mines and Quarries," by George P. Merrill, Twelfth Census U. S., 1900, pp. 791-795. (includes information on the marbles of Vermont)
  • "A Special Place: Vermont: Suite of Seasons," by Edward Hoagland, National Geographic (September 1998), pp. 72-91.
  • Stones for Building and Decoration, by George Perkins Merrill, Third edition, rev. and enl., Publisher: New York, J. Wiley & Sons; 1908, (pp. 203-240, 324-340; Vermont marble: pp. 231-239, 372-374, 513.)
  • The Story of Dorset, by Zephine Humphrey, Tuttle Co., Rutland, 1924. (Written in collaboration with Elizabeth Sykes Lee, drawings by Katherine Field White.)
  • The Story of Granite, prepared by the Barre Granite Association, Barre, Vermont (booklet).
  • "Stratigraphy and Structure of West-Central Vermont," by W. M. Cady, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., Vol. 56, 1945, pp. 515-587.
  • "Structural Details in the Green Mountain Region and in Eastern New York" by T. Nelson Dale, (second paper), Bulletin 195, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1902, pp. 10-13, Pl. I, B.
  • "Structure of Central and East Central Vermont," W. S. White, and R. H. Jahns, Jour. Geology, vol. 58, 1950, pp. 179-220.
  • A Study in Slate: Welsh Immigration: Its Effects on the Slate Valley (1840-1870) the Slate Industry from 1901-1930, and Environmental Impacts of Slate Quarries, S. Carpenter, Undergraduate Thesis, University of Vermont, 2002.
  • Study of the Slate Mining Industry of Vermont / New York: Final Report, United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines, Cambridge, MA: Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1980.
  • Sweet Lands of Liberty: A Historiogenealogy of Selected Branches of the Field, Douglas and Stockton Families of England, Canada, and America, by William Stephenson Field, 2004, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press; Coronado, CA (1101 First St., #208, Coronado, CA 92118) 679 pp.
  • “Symbolic Cemetery Gates in New England,” by Harriette M. Forbes, in Markers VII, Association for Gravestone Studies, 1990. (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, USA)
  • The Technology of Marble Quarrying, U. S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin 106, by Oliver Bowles, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1916.
  • "The Terranes of Irasburg, Vermont," Vermont State Geologist Eighth Report, by C. H. Richardson, and E. F. Conway, 1912.
  • "The Terranes of Orange County, Vermont," State Geologist Vermont Report, by C. H. Richardson, Vol. 3, pp. 61-101, 1902. (literature on the eastern Vermont marbles)
  • "Tests of Rutland and Washington County Slates," by J. Francis Williams, (Purple and green from Fair Haven, Vermont; Red from Granville, New York.) Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, Vol. 31, pp. 101-103, July-Dec. 1884.
  • Three Easy Walks in Dorset to Historic Marble Quarry Sites All on Mts. Aeolus and Dorset, and each with impressive views: Gettysburg Quarry - overlooking the Dorset Valley; Folsom Quarry - with views over the Manchester valley; Freedley Quarry - views to the Green Mountains, Dorset Historical Society, 2005.
  • Time and Change in Vermont: A Human Geography, by Harold A Meeks, The Globe Pequot Press, Chester, Conn., 1986.
  • “Tools and Machinery of the Granite Industry” (in four parts), by Paul Wood, in The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc. (Issues of these magazines are available from th Early American Industries Association, Inc. Parts I, II, and III the four articles are available on the Find Articles web site at the web addresses below, although the photographs are not included.)

    Part I. Vol. 59, No. 2, June 2006. (“Introduction: This article, the first in a series of four on granite working, deals with granite as a material, an industry, and a product and begins the description of the granite quarrying process.”)

    Part II. Vol. 59, No. 3, September 2006. (“Introduction: This article, the second in a series of four on granite working, completes the description of the quarrying process....”)

    Part III. Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2006. (“Granite Finishing: A small number of basic finished dimension stones made up the great majority of granite shed production. For gravestones and private....”)

    Part IV. Vol. 60, No. 1, March 2007. (“This article is the last in a series of four on the tools and machinery of granite working....”)

  • “The Town of Brandon, Vermont” (PDF), by Augusta W. Kellogg, in New England Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 3, November 1897, pp. 293-309.

  • “A Town of Grave Importance: Resting in peace, Barre, Vermont, is a little town with a reputation carved in stone,” by Margaret G. Zackowitz, photographs by Cary Wolinsky, in National Geographic, October 2003.
  • "The town that slate – and the Welsh – built," The Rutland Herald, by Gordon Dritschilo Herald Staff, August 4, 2000.
  • The Trap Dikes of The Lake Champlain Region, Bulletin 107, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. 62 pp.
  • Travels Across America: The Northeast. National Geographic Reading Expeditions, by Elspeth Leacock, 2002.
  • “Tributes in Stone and Lapidary Lapses: Commemorating Black People in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America,” by Angelika Krüger-Kahloula, in Markers VI: pp. 32-100, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, USA)
  • "A Vacation in Vermont," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. CCCCII.--Vol. LXVII, November, 1883.
  • Vermont: A Glimpse of Its Scenery...and...Industries, by Victor I. Spear, issued by the State Board of Agriculture, Argus and Patriot Print, Montpelier, Vt., 1893.
  • Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State, Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration for State of Vermont, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1937.
  • “Vermont Granite Mortality Study: An Update with an Emphasis on Lung Cancer,” W. G. Graham, J. Costello, and P. M. Vacek, in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 46(5): 459-466, 2004.
  • Vermont Granite Railroads: The Montepelier & Wells River and the Barre & Chelsea, by Robert C. Jones, Whitney J. Maxfield, and William C. Gove, Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1985. (relating to the steam railroads of the Vermont stone quarries)
  • “Vermont Granite Workers’ Mortality Study,” in American Journal of Industrial Medicine, J. Costello and W. G. Graham, 13(4): 483-497, 1988.
  • “Vermont Marble,” in The Youth’s Companion, by Priscilla Leonard, New England Edition, July 14, 1898, pp. III.
  • "Vermont Marble - Part I. Quarries of the Norcross-West Marble Co., Dorset Vermont," written by Ernest H. West, Mine and Quarry Magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, March, 1909, pages 271-275.
  • "Vermont Marble - Part II. Quarries of the Vermont Marble Company (quarries and mills in Rutland County, Vt., in the towns of West Rutland, Proctor, Danby and Pittsford)," written by H. J. Markolf and D. J. O'Rourke, Mine and Quarry Magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, June, 1909, pages 286-297.
  • "Vermont Marble - Part III - "Recent Models of Channeling Machines; Quarries of the Clarendon Marble Company, Clarendon, VT.," written by H. H. Mercer and H. J. Markolf, from Mine and Quarry Magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. VI, No. 4, June, 1912, pages 612-621.
  • "The Vermont Marble Belt," by G. W. Bain, 16th Internat. Geol. Cong., Guidebook 1, 1933, pp. 75-80.
  • Vermont Marble Company (?) - Design Book No. 5. Memorials, Vermont Marble Co., 1930, 88 pp. (Copy located in the Degolyer Library Collection in the “Trade Catalogs” section. Degolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.) [PDF]
  • Vermont Marble Company - Vermont Marble Memorials, Vermont Marble Company, Proctor Vermont, 1928, 132 pp. (Copy located in the Degolyer Library Collection in the “Trade Catalogs” section. Degolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.) [PDF]
  • Vermont Marble Color Selector and Guide, Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, 1976.
  • Vermont Marble Memorials, Vermont Marble Company, Proctor Vermont, 1928, 132 pp. (Copy located in the Degolyer Library Collection in the “Trade Catalogs” section. Degolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.) [PDF]
  • Vermont Mines and Mineral Localities, by Philip Morrill and Robert G. Chaffee, Part I. Southern Vermont, Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1957.
  • Vermont Mines and Mineral Localities, by Philip Morrill and Robert G. Chaffee, Part II. Northern Vermont, Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1960.
  • Vermont Quarterly Gazetteer, by Abby Maria Hemenway, published by author, Burlington, Bennington County, October 1861. (With histories of all towns.)
  • Vermont’s Granite Railroads: The Montepelier & Wells River and the Barre & Chelsea, by Robert C. Jones, Whitney J. Maxfield, and William C. Gove, Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 1985. (Relating to the steam railroads of the Vermont stone quarries)
  • Vermont's Land and Resources, by Harold A. Meeks, The New England Press, Shelburne, Vermont, 1987. (sequel to Time and Change in Vermont: A Human Geography.)
  • "Vermont's Rolling Green Mountains," by Stephen Jermanok, in National Geographic Adventure, May/June 2000, pp. 112-14.
  • W. A. Hambleton Granite Monuments & Statuary Catalog At Wholesale, Book No. 10 (PDF), American & Foreign, Mansfield, Ohio; Barre, Vermont; Aberdeen, Scotland.
    W. A. Hambleton Granite Monuments & Statuary Catalog At Wholesale, Book No. 10, Mansfield, OH
  • “Waits River Limestone,” The Geology of Newport, Troy, and Coventry, State Geologist Vermont Report, by C. H. Richardson, Vol. 6, pp. 274-276, 1907. (Literature on the eastern Vermont marbles.)
  • Walking Tour: Visit the Historic Village of Dorset , Vermont, Dorset Historical Society, 2004.
  • “Wanted: The Hook-And-Eye Man (Gershom Bartlett),” by Ernest Caulfield, in Markers I, pp. 12-49, Association for Gravestone Studies. (Connecticut, Vermont, USA)
  • “Washington Limestone,” The Areal and Economic Geology of Northeastern Vermont, State Geologist Vermont Report, by C. H. Richardson, Vol. 5, pp. 86-90, 1906. (Literature on the eastern Vermont marbles.)
  • The Western Vermont Slate Belt: Fair Haven, D. Offensend, Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 2003.
  • “The Winooski Marble of Colchester, Vermont,” by Charles H. Hitchcock, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. 16, 1867, p. 119.
  • “The Winooski or Wakefield Marble of Vermont,” by G. H. Perkins, Am. Naturalist, Vol. 19, 1885, pp. 128-136. Abstract, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. 31, 1882, p. 388.
  • The Yankee Exodus: An Account of Migration from New England, by Stewart H. Holbrook, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1950.

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