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

• Barton, Orleans County, Vermont - the Barnard 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 Barnard Quarry was “in the township of ‘Barton.’ The operator was John M. Barnard, R. D. 1, Barton. The granite was called “Barton” and is reportedly a medium gray color of medium texture. When measured, the quarry was 300 by 100 feet and had a depth up to 9 feet. At the time of the inspection, the quarry was idle.

  Accessory minerals: Apatite, zircon. Secondary minerals: Kaolin, chlorite, calcite.

  The granite from the Barnard Quarry was used for monumental work.

• Beldens, Vermont – Adams & Bacon (Stone Dealer) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 473.)

  Adams & Bacon,

  Beldens, Vermont

  Marble that is better than Brandon Italian or Florentine Blue.

  Does not exist and your stock is not complete without these varieties. We furnish both eight Rough or Finished, and we fill all orders in the best possible manner. We ship promptly and we guarantee satisfaction. Write for prices.

  Peverley Bros., 1215 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Agents for Pa, N.J., Md., Del., Va., and W. Va.

• Bennington, Vermont – the Emerson E. Estabrook, Granite Dealer, Bennington, Vermont, Archived Collection (circa 1900) on WorldCat. (The location of the Estabrook collection is not provided. Peggy B. Perazzo)
  

“The collection consists of 13 monument designs, 7 photographs of monuments, including 4 cyanotypes, 2 photographs of unidentified quarries, two illustrations of monuments removed from The Monumental News, a trade magazine, and pen-and-ink design for a monument for Colonel W. J. Miller.  Six of the monument designs are labeled ‘MacLane,’ and another is labeled ‘True Blue Marble Co.’, a West Rutland marble company that closed in 1900.  The black and white monument photographs are stamped ‘E. Estabrook, manufacturers’ agent, Bennington Vermont,’ while the cyanotypes include the dimensions and price of each monument.”

• Berlin, Vermont – A. Bernasconi & Co., Granite Cutters (The following information is from the section "Stone Trade Notes" in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Stone, Marble, Granite, Slate, Cement, Contracting and Building, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, January, 1902, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 64.)

A. Bernasconi & Co., granite cutters, of Berlin, Vermont, have filed a petition in bankruptcy, giving their liabilities at $1,616.43; assets, $1,130.

• Belvidere, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Belvidere,….”

• Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont - the Ellis 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 Ellis Quarry was located “on the east side of Christian Hill, about 2 miles north of Bethel village, in Bethel Township.” The operator was Woodbury Granite Company, of Hardwick, Vermont. In 1922 the quarry was idle. “The quarry, permanently opened in 1902 but in a small way many years earlier and abandoned, was estimated in 1907 as being about 1,000 feet long from north to south, and from the southern three-fifths of its length 150 feet wide, but the remainder 400 feet wide. Its depth was 5 to 40 feet, averaging about 15 feet. Its west edge is about 80 feet higher than its east edge.” (For examples of buildings built with granite from the Ellis Quarry, see the examples given in the Woodbury Quarry section following this section on Ellis quarry.)

• Bethel, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Bethel….”

• Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont - the Woodbury 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 Woodbury Quarry was “50 feet north of the Ellis Quarry, on the east side and top of Christian Hill, about 2 miles north of Bethel village, in Bethel Township.” The operator was Woodbury Granite Company of Hardwick Vermont. In 1922 the quarry was idle. The quarry opened in 1902. In 1907 the quarry measured about 500 feet from north to south and was 200 feet across. It had a depth from 5 to 30 feet.

  The granite from the Woodbury Quarry and the Ellis Quarry was used for buildings and monuments. Examples can be found at: the Capitol of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin; the American Bank Note Building in New York…; the Theodore N. Vail residence in Morristown, New Jersey; the Mary Ann Brown Memorial Library in Providence, Rhode Island, the State Library and city hall in Hartford, Connecticut; the post office, Union Station, and the first and second stories of the New National Museum in Washington D. C.; the Franklin Savings Bank in Greenfield, Massachusetts; the Congdon residence in Duluth, Minnesota; the Eddy Memorial in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Swope Memorial in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri.

• Bethel, Vermont - Woodbury Granite Company Quarry

  (postcard photograph, published by L.F. Terry, Bethel, Vt.; made in Germany; postmark August 19, 1914.)

• Bethel, Vermont - Woodbury Granite Quarries

  (postcard photograph; published by May Blossom, Bethel, Vt.; made in Germany; postmark November 24, 1908)

• Bolton, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Bolton….”

• Bomoseen, Vermont - Bomoseen State Park (abandoned), Vermont - Bomoseen Slate History Trail. Bomoseen State Park is located in the Taconic Mountains on the shores of Lake Bomoseen in Rutland County, Vermont.
• Braintree, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont.- Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Braintree….”

• Brandon, Vermont - the Brandon Italian High Street Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The Brandon Italian quarry is half a mile south of Brandon station and 0.7 miles west of the west boundary of the basal dolomite. (See Pl. I and map of Brandon quadrangle, U. S. Geol. Survey.) The quarry measures about 600 feet north to south by 60 feet across and 75 feet in depth.

  “Operator since 1909, Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vt.

  “The marble is of uncertain thickness owing to close folding, as explained below. The character of the marble is regarded by the operators as identical with that of the Hollister quarries.

  “The marble, “Brandon Italian” (specimens D, XXII, 250, a, b, rough) is a calcite marble of light bluish-gray color crossed by small dark-gray graphitic dolomitic beds which on the bed face produce an irregular mottling. Its texture is uneven and somewhat elongated, with grain diameter in the calcitic parts of 0.05 to 0.87, mostly 0.17 to 0.5 millimeter, and it is thus of grade 4 (medium). The grain form and texture as shown in figure 22. An estimate of the average grain diameter by the Rosiwal method yields 0.155 millimeter. The section did not cross any of the dolomitic beds. Quartz grains, somewhat plentiful, measure 0.05 to 0.07 millimeter. A little pyrite and rarely muscovite are also present.

  “The beds strike N. 20° –25° W. and on the east side dip steeply to the east at the south end but stand vertical at the north end. In the center of the quarry they zigzag in a horizontal direction, indicating a synclinal or anticlinal structure. A repetition of the beds on either side of the synclinal axis is therefore to be expected. Core drilling at a point 200 feet east of the quarry shows continuous marble. In breaking the blocks an obscure vertical cleavage parallel to the bedding on the east side of the quarry is utilized. The possible synclinal structure is shown in figure 23, b. The marble in 1903 was reported as affording evidence of compressive strain.

  “Specimen: Roman Catholic Church at Middlebury.”

• Brandon, Vermont - the Brandon Marble Quarries (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “There were but two active quarries in Brandon in 1910. The marbles of four idle ones which were visited in 1903 were examined microscopically. Two new prospects were opened in 1911.”

• Brandon, Vermont – Brandon Italian Marble Company (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 473.)

  (Page 517, in the “Among Our Advertisers” section:

  “Anticipating an increasing demand for their marble for monumental and building purposes the Brandon Italian Marble Co., of Brandon, Vt., is developing a large addition to their quarries, to insure being in shape to take care of their increased trade. They report having had a very fair trade this summer.”

  Brandon Italian Marble Company

  J. Duncan Upham, President - H. D. Bacon, Tres. and Manager.

  Brandon Italian Marble

  It has - Beauty - Strength - Durability. Sawed and Finished for the trade.

  Office, Quarries and Mills. Brandon, VT

• Brandon, Vermont - the Brandon Italian Marble Co. The following information is from The Monumental News, “Quarry Notes” section, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 504.

  “The Brandon Italian Marble Co. are opening a new quarry of dark blue marble near Brandon, Vt. ”

• Brandon, Vermont – the Brandon Italian Marble Company Quarry (history and photograph) in “Town of Brandon, Vermont” (PDF), by Augusta W. Kellogg, in New England Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 3, November 1897, pp. 293-309. (This article includes information on and a photograph of the Brandon Italian Marble Company’s Quarry.)

  Brandon’s Italian Marble Company’s Quarry from “The Town of Brandon,” in New England Magazine, November 1897, pp. 305.

• Brandon, Vermont - Italian Marble Quarry, Brandon, Vermont

  (postcard photograph 26 - #OA 3987; C. W. Hughes Co., Inc. Mechanicville, N. Y.; postmark August 31, 1937)

• Brandon, Vermont - Cedar Mt. State Quarry in Bomoseen, Vermont

  (postcard photograph; ; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Brandon, Vermont - the Connell Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The Connell quarry is about 1,800 feet ENE. of the Goodell quarry and 4 ¼ miles southwest of the bench mark in Brandon village. (See Pl. I.) Operator, Brandon Marble Co., Brandon, Vt.

  “The quarry measures 60 by 30 feet and is 24 feet deep; there is a second opening 175 feet to the north.

  “The beds here consist of 30 feet of marble, both overlain and underlain by graphitic dolomite. The stratigraphic position is like that of the Goodell quarry. The thickness of 30 feet includes a 7-foot bed of fine white statuary, 13 feet of mottled, and 10 feet of gray marble.

  “The white marble (specimens D, XXXI, 88, a, rough; b, polished) is a calcite marble of very faint ivory tint and of regular, even texture, with grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.45, mostly 0.1 to 0.24 millimeter. A Rosiwal measurement of a thin section shows an average grain diameter of 0.1 millimeter. It therefore belongs to grade 2 (very fine), as does also the “statuary Rutland.” It contains rare quartz grains and sparse minute black specks. It takes a high polish.

  “The beds are on the strike of the beds in the Goodell quarry (N. 30° E.) and dip 40° S. 60° E. The excavations have not proceeded far enough to show the relations of the two dolomite beds to one another.”

• Brandon, Vermont - the Corona Marble Company (The following information was taken from a postcard sent by the Corona Marble Company on May 13, 1892.)

  Corona Marble Co.,

  Producers and Wholesale Dealers in

  Corona Brandon, Brandon Cloud and Dark Veined Blue.

  Brandon, Vt.

• Brandon, Vermont - the Goodell Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The Goodell quarry is at the foot of the north end of the Taconic Range about 2 ½ miles southwest of Brandon station. ( See Pl. I.) It is a small opening abandoned soon after it was made owing to the smallness of the marble bed.

  “The beds include 15 feet of fine white marble, apparently both underlain and overlain by a dark gray graphitic quartzose dolomite. Some of the marble is in thin beds and the whole is reported as running out or covered along the strike. It probably belongs toward the upper graphitic series.

  “The marble (specimen N. D, I, 9, b) is a calcite marble of milk-white color and of regular, even texture, with grain diameter of 0.02 to 0.37, mostly 0.07 to 0.25 millimeter, and thus of grade 2 (very fine). It takes a high polish.

  “The marble bed and the dolomitic rock on both sides of it strike N. 30° E. and dip 35° S. 60° E. Of the overlying dolomite a thickness of 15 feet is exposed. It is uncertain whether the two dolomitic beds are one bed doubled over or two distinct beds. The rock in thin section has a grain diameter of 0.009 to 0.094, mostly 0.02 to 0.04 millimeter. Its character as dolomite is not shown by twinning. It contains sparse grains of quartz and rarely one of plagioclase (feldspar). A very graphitic quartzose bed a millimeter thick and another twinned calcite particles with quartz grains appear in the section.

  “W. T. Schaller, of the Geological Survey, who examined the rock qualitatively, reports that “calcite and dolomite together form a large part of it, but dolomite itself does not form the chief constituent.”

  “A railing with balusters of this marble can be seen at the side of the pulpit in the Congregational Church at Brandon.”

• Brandon, Vermont – the Marble Quarry 238 in Brandon (aka the “Prime Quarry” & the “Richmond Quarry – See following entry.)* (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The abandoned quarry at locality 238 is a mile north of the Landon, a little east of the railroad, and about 2 miles S. 25° E. of Brandon station. (See Pl. I.)

  “The marble is a calcite marble of milk-white color, with little cloudy dolomitic and muscovitic beds. The calcitic parts are irregular in texture and have a grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.75, mostly 0.12 to 0.38 millimeter, being thus of grade 4 (medium). The marble contains some pyrite and a little quartz.

  “The plicated bedding is vertical and is crossed by low eastward-dipping cleavage (‘reeds’).”

  (* According to Bill Powers’ research, the Vermont Marble Co. Quarry 238 was originally known as the Prime Quarry and then the Richmond Quarry.)

• Brandon, Vermont – the Prime / Richmond Quarry (aka Marble Quarry 238, one of the Vermont Marble Co. quarries) All information and the photograph below about the Prime/Richmond marble quarry below were provided by William Powers, Jr., of Vermont.

  William J. Powers’s research is available in his Prime or Richmond Marble Quarry, Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, By William J. Powers, Jr., December 6, 2010 (PDF) You can contact Bill directly if you wish at his email: William J. Powers, Jr.

  According to Bill Powers’ research, the quarry named “Marble Quarry 238” above (owned and operated by the Vermont Marble Co. at that time) was originally named the “Prime Quarry” and later changed to the “Richmond Quarry”; both quarry names were named after men who had owned the property. (Further research by Bill Powers indicates that the quarry was also referred to as the “Dean Quarry,” although the quarry is locally known as the “Prime Quarry.”)

  

  Photo of the Prime Quarry (aka Richmond Quarry & Marble Quarry 238) in Brandon, Vermont, taken in November 2010 by Bill Powers

• Brandon, Vermont - the Prospect 255 Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “Prospect 255 is 2 ¼ miles north of Brandon station, just west of the boundary of the basal dolomite east of the road to Leicester. (See Pl. I.)

  “The marble is white and light bluish gray. A specimen of the latter (D, XXII, 255, a) shows small medium gray dolomitic bands up to 0.1 inch wide. The calcitic part is of irregular texture and has a grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.75, mostly 0.12 to 0.5 millimeter, being thus of about grade 4 (medium). It contains minute quartz grains and some pyrite. A large plate of untwinned dolomite, 1.12 millimeters across, with rhombic cleavage, is crowded with graphite. This marble is coarser than that of the Royce quarry.

  “The beds strike N. 10° E. and dip 35° E. Dolomite lies east of the marble with like dip, both forming part of an overturned fold. The marble thus belongs at base of the marble series.”

• Brandon, Vermont - the Royce Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The long idle Royce quarry is three-fourths of a mile northwest of Brandon station at the west foot of a ridge 100 feet high. ( See Pl. I.) The quarry measures about 150 feet along the strike. The marble exposed measures about 70 feet, underlying (really overlying in the consequence of overturned folds) grayish dolomite which may be the intermediate dolomite.

  “The marble is of two kinds. One (specimen D, XXII, 218, a) is a calcite marble of very light bluish-gray color, with inconspicuous medium-gray dolomite (?) mottling (beds), and of even texture, with grain diameter in the calcitic part of 0.02 to 0.37, mostly 0.1 to 0.25 millimeter, and thus of grade 3 (fine). It contains some small quartz grains and some pyrite. There is a rough parallelism of the twinning planes of different particles. The other (specimen D, XXII, 218, b) is a calcite marble of milk-white color, with little grayish micaceous dolomitic beds. The calcitic part has a grain diameter of 0.02 to 0.5, mostly 0.1 to 0.25 millimeter, and s thus also grade 3. It contains small sparse quartz grains and very minute black particles of uncertain nature.

  “The marble and the dolomite east of it strike N. 15° - 20° W. and dip steeply to the east. The upper marble beds are crossed by joints dipping 30° W.”

• Brandon, Vermont - the Vermont Italian Marble Co.’s Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The quarry of the Vermont Italian Marble Co., of Brandon, is 1 ½ miles N. 20° W. of the bench mark in Brandon village. (See Pl. I.) It was opened in 1911.

  “The marble is reported as practically identical with that of the Brandon Italian quarry, 2 miles to the south, and is said to measure 600 feet in width, without reference, of course, to any duplication in folding. The beds dip about 18° roughly eastward. One or more of them attain a thickness of 8 feet.”

• Brattleboro, Vermont – Grant Granite Co. (Monument Dealer) (Excerpts from “Motor Truck in the Monument Business: What Retail Monument Dealers Think of the Efficiency of Motor Transportation for Memorial Work,” article in Granite Marble & Bronze, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, January 1921, pp. 32-33d.

  “A short time ago Granite Marble & Bronze sent out a questionnaire to thousands of retail monument dealers throughout the country for information regarding the part the motor truck plays in the retail monument business….”

  “Of course, the real interest in connection with this digest is in quoting what the dealers have to say about the subject, for the sayings are many and various….”

  “Grant Granite Co., Brattleboro, Vt.:

  “‘We use a Ford one-ton truck, but it is constantly over-loaded. It saves much time. Two men and one truck will handle more work than four men and two teams. Of course, it occasionally gets stalled in soft country roads and is unsatisfactory when snow is on the ground.

  ‘The truck itself is not cheaper than a two-horse team, but the saving is in the extra labor required to do the work with teams. Our repairs have been above expectation, but this has been due largely to overloading and incompetent drivers and repair men. We have ordered a Nash truck for next year.’”

• Bridgewater, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Bridgewater….”

• Burlington, Vermont – H. M. Phelps (Stone Dealer) (The following advertisement is from The Reporter: Devoted To The Interests of Marble and Granite Workers, Vol. XVII, No. 6, published by Nichols & Co., Chicago, Illinois, June, 1884, pp. 12.)

  H.M. Phelps, Barre Granite
  Yard & Mill, 182, 184, 186, 188 & 190 Bank St.,
  Office, 190 Bank St., Burlington, Vermont

  Barre Granite is a beautiful dark grey, polishes very highly and shows a good contrast
  between polished and hammer dressed surfaces.

  Barre Granite - No Granite Has Grown So Rapidly
  in Public Favor, And Has Given Such General Satisfaction
  As Barre Granite.

  We Handle Nothing But The Darkest and Best Barre Granite.
  Statuary, Vaults, Tombs, Coping, Monuments and Ornamental Building.
  Work out of the best Dark Barre Granite.

• Burlington, Vermont – J. W. Goodell & Co. (The following advertisement is from The Reporter: Devoted To The Interests of Marble and Granite Workers, Vol. XVII, No. 6, published by Nichols & Co., Chicago, Illinois, June, 1884, pp. 17.)

  J. W. Goodell & Co.,
  Main Office and Steam Mills,
  241 to 261 Pine St., Burlington, Vermont

  Barre Granite Monuments.
  And Cemetery Work.
  Western Agents, Burlington Mnf'g. Co.,
  Michigan Ave., Cor. Van Buren St., Chicago, ILL.
  

• Burlington, Vermont - Redstone Quarry, presented by the University of Vermont (photographs and history)

  The Redstone Quarry is located in a suburban neighborhood in the city of Burlington. Today the quarry site is located in a 3-acre natural area owned by the University of Vermont. "Monkton Quartzite or 'redstone'...was quarried there for over 100 years and used as building material and crushed gravel. Many of the older buildings found on the University of Vermont Campus and in downtown Burlington were constructed with large blocks of this reddish brown stone."

  • Redstone Natural Area
• Cabot, Washington County, Vermont - Lambert’s Granite Prospect (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 Lambert Prospect was “in the northern corner of the township, on the east side of a north-south ridge, roughly about 4 miles east of Robeson Mountain in Woodbury and about 700 feet above Woodbury Pond…It is on the farm of Myron Goodnough, near the Walden line, on the South Walden road which leads from Cabot to Hardins.” The operator was the Cabot Granite co. (Joseph Lambert) of Hardwick, Vermont. The granite is a “dark gray” of dark bluish-gray color and fine texture.

  Accessory minerals: Pyrite, titanite, apatite, and allanite. Secondary minerals: Calcite, epidote, kaolin, and one or two white micas.

  The quarry opened in 1904. some work was done in 1907 and more later but operations were suspended in 1915.

• Calais, Washington County, Vermont - the Lake Shore 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 town of Calais adjoins Woodbury on the southwest. The quarries are at Adamant (formerly known as Sodom), in the west corner of the town and 6 miles north-northeast of Montpelier.”

  The Lake Shore Quarry was located “about 1,200 feet S. 32° W. from the Patch quarry, near Adamant, in Calais.” It was abandoned before 1915. The granite is a light to medium gray shade and a little darker than “light Barre, although lighter than “medium Barre.”

  In 1907 the quarry was measure to be “about 300 feet long in a N. 60° W. direction by 250 feet across and from 20 to 40 feet deep.”

• Calais, Washington County, Vermont – Millstones quarried from a Calais Quarry (circa 1830s) (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. 377. (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)

  “Medad Wright, the senior member of the firm of M. Wright & Son., of Wrightsville, in Montpelier, was born in Calais, Vt., in 1812…While in boyhood he began to develop mechanical skill and inventive genius of no ordinary ability, which was clearly discovered in his inventions of several articles of practical value…Upon reaching his majority he bought the waterpower which he now occupies, and began work there in 1834…The mill was 30 x 30 feet, two stories high, furnished with two runs of stones, one for grinding corn, the other for wheat, with smut-mill and bolt. These millstones were taken from a quarry in Calais, and wrought to final finish by Mr. Wright’s skillful hands….”

• Calais, Washington County, Vermont - the Patch 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 town of Calais adjoins Woodbury on the southwest. The quarries are at Adamant (formerly known as Sodom), in the west corner of the town and 6 miles north-northeast of Montpelier.”

  Patch Granite Quarry

  The Patch Quarry was “within half a mile of Adamant, in Calais.” The operator was the Hughes Granite & Quarry Co. of Montpelier, Vermont. The granite is “medium gray,” a medium, slightly bluish-gray color with a medium texture. “This granite is of the same shade as “medium Barre” but of less bluish and more greenish tinge.”

  Accessory minerals: Apatite and zircon. Secondary minerals: Kaolin, calcite, and white mica.

  The Patch was opened about 1893. In 1907 the quarry was estimated to measure 250 feet from north to south by 150 feet across. It had an estimated depth from 20 to 50 feet. Transport of the granite was by cart 7 miles to Montpelier.

  The granite from the Patch Quarry was used for monuments, and the chief market was in the Middle West.

• Cambridge, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Cambridge….”

• Cavendish, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Cavendish….”

• Chester, Vermont - Steatite/Soapstone Deposits (Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology, pp. 285-291. “Soap-Stones of the Various States and Territories,” pp. 359-360.)

  “Vermont. - Most of the steatite of this State is found on the east side of the Green Mountains and near the eastern line of the talcose slate formation, beds of it extending nearly the entire length of the State. The rock occurs usually associated with serpentine and hornblende. The beds are not continuous and have, as a rule, a great thickness in comparison with their length. It not infrequently happens that several isolated outcrops occur on the same line of strata, sometimes several miles apart, and in many cases alternating with beds of dolomitic lime stone that are scattered along with them.

  “At least sixty beds of this rock occur in the State in the towns of…Chester….”

• Clarendon Village, Vermont - the Clarendon Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The Clarendon quarry is east of the foot of the Taconic Range, 3 miles south-southeast of West Rutland, in the township of Clarendon. (See Pl. I and map of Castleton quadrangle, U.S. Geol. Survey.) The quarry, an old one, abandoned before 1900 but reopened in 1909, is about 100 feet north to south by 51 feet across, with an average depth of 30 feet. Its length is being extended 40 feet. Operator, Clarendon Marble Co., West Rutland, Vt.

  “The marble beds exposed and prospected are, in natural order, as follows:

  Section of marble beds at Clarendon quarry.

  Graphitic marble - 50 feet

  Graphitic schist - 7 feet

  Graphitic banded marble - 19 feet

  White marble, slightly mottled (“Clarendon A”) - 17 feet

  White marble, mottled and banded - 34 feet

  Mixed mottled marble - 99 feet

  Dolomite - 20 feet

  Graphitic variegated marble - 81 feet

  (total) 327 feet

  “The schist boundary must be very near the top of the series.

  “‘Clarendon A’ (specimen D, XXXI, 27, a rough; f, polished) is a calcite marble of bluish-white color, with little bands or rows of spots of medium gray shade. It is of uneven texture, consisting of coarser white parts with grain diameter of 0.12 to 1, mostly 0.25 to 0.62 millimeter, and thus of grade 5, and of finer dolomitic gray parts from 0.1 to 0.2 inch in width, thus of grade 1. The white parts contain some minute grains of quartz and of pyrite and minute black specks of uncertain nature. The gray spots and bands are graphitic. The marble takes a high polish, the dolomitic bands and spots standing out in minute relief.

  “The dark-gray banned marble of the 19-foot bed (specimen D, XXXI, 27, b, c,) is a graphitic calcite marble, in some beds almost black, alternating dark with bluish gray bands from 0.05 to 0.2 inch wide without plications, but in other beds of light-gray calcite marble alternating with similar bands of dark-gray shade. It has a grain diameter of 0.05 to 0.5, mostly 0.12 to 0.37 millimeter, and is thus of grade 4. It is graphitic throughout but particularly so in the dark bands, and pyritiferous, with quartz grains rare and small, and limonite stain. This marble takes a high polish.

  “The variegated rock of the lowest bed is a graphitic calcite marble of very dark bluish-gray color, mottled or irregularly banded with very light bluish gray, almost bluish white, and of grade 4.

  “The beds strike N.10° W. and dip 42° W. A section of the graphitic schist (7-foot bed) shows it to be a sericite-quartz-graphite-calcite schist. It is finely plicated and crossed by slip cleavage and is veined with quartz, calcite, and pyrite. This is the typical schist of the base of the schist formation of the Taconic Range. The marble is cut by joints striking N. 35° W., dipping 45° N. 55° E., and spaced 3 to 7 feet. The marble beds at the surface are finely glaciated and the glacial polish has been preserved by a bed of clay which at the back of the quarry, over the small schist bed, is very graphitic and measures 7 feet in thickness, and a little farther west measures 30 feet and contains bowlders and sand.

  “The marble is used for construction. Specimen of ‘Clarendon A’: The free-standing, iron-centered columns of the State Educational building at Albany.”

• Clarendon Village, Vermont - the Clarendon Valley Marble Quarry (from Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont, Bulletin 521, by T. Nelson Dale, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1912.)

  “The Clarendon Valley quarry is on the east side of the intermediate range, on the J. D. Pratt farm, about 1 ¼ miles south-southeast of Clarendon village church and 2 miles southwest of East Clarendon, in the Otter Creek Valley, half a mile east of the creek, in Clarendon Township. (See map of Rutland, quadrangle, U. S. Geol. Survey.) The quarry, opened in 1909-10, is 50 by 35 feet and 9 feet deep. Operator, Clarendon Valley Marble Co., 29 Broadway, New York, or Clarendon, Rutland County, Vt.

  “The marble beds exposed here consist of at least 70 feet of calcite marble.

  “The marble (specimens D, XXXI, 28, a, rough; b, c, polished), “Clarendon Valley Gray,” is a calcite marble of very light bluish-gray color, with fine, closely and acutely plicated dark-gray dolomite beds. The calcite marble of the ground is of irregular texture, with grain diameter of 0.5 to 2, mostly 0.12 to 0.5 millimeter, and thus of grade 5 (coarse). The little dolomite beds consist of irregular and rhombic untwinned dolomite with a grain diameter of 0.025 to 0.1, mostly 0.05 to 0.07 millimeter, and thus of grade 1. Graphite abounds in the dolomite beds, but occurs also sparsely throughout the calcite marble, as does also quartz. There are rare grains of feldspar (orthoclase, plagioclase, and microcline), muscovite flakes, sericite stringers, and small particles of pyrite in the calcite, but pyrite abounds in the dolomite bands. The polish is good except on the dark bands. Some of the marble, “Clarendon white,” is a trifle lighter and has fewer gray streaks.

  “The beds strike N. 55° –60° E. and dip 25° N. 33° W. They are crossed by cleavage dipping 25° E. There are large exposures of either the basal dolomite or the intermediate dolomite with a westerly dip between the quarry and Clarendon Village, on the east side of the road. The marble of the quarry evidently belongs between the basal and intermediate dolomite, probably near the former.”

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