Swenson mostly produces granite known as Concord Gray, and its main product is curbing stone. Herrick said Swenson Granite, which has been operating on Rattlesnake Hill off North Main Street since ...

This is the latest in a series of monthly columns on central Vermont's granite industry provided by the Vermont Granite Industry of Barre. New England farmers often split granite from surface boulders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 5—CONCORD — It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. But last month, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 5—CONCORD It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. But last month, the ...

Obadiah Buell grew up in the thin, scruffy woods of north Sullivan in a house his back-to-the-lander parents built from architectural salvage in the late ’60s. He didn’t go to school. Instead, he ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Cohasset had a granite industry. The mottled gray stone that underlies our town was used for foundations, seawalls, retaining walls, and the like, but its quality ...