Granite Quarries of New England

In the summer of 2022, I visited various granite quarries in Massachusetts. Click here to see the complete write-up of this very interesting excursion.

I must thank Mary and James Gage for their guided tour of the quarries of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. They are the authors of the “The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock Quarrying Methods in Pre-Industrial New England 1630-1825” which an invaluable tool for anyone trying to understand early American quarrying methods.