Grearson & Lane Company, Granite Turning Shed, Barre, Washington County, VT

Grearson & Lane Company, Granite Turning Shed, Barre, Washington County, VT Contributor Names Historic American Engineering Record, creator Grearson & Lane Company, Inc. ... Grearson & Lane Company, Granite Turning Shed, Barre, Washington County, VT. Vermont Washington County Barre, 1968. Documentation Compiled After.

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Vermont Historical Society HISTORY

times as high as the state average between 1920 and 1939. 12 A study of mortality among granite workers from 1926 to 1936 showed that they died approximately eleven years younger than other Vermont males and that seventy-three percent of the granite cutters had died of silico­ tuberculosis. 13 Some efforts were made during the ]920s and 1930s to

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Rock of Ages granite quarry in Barre,...

Rock of Ages granite quarry in Barre, Vermont. At nearly 600 feet deep, it is the largest operating deep-hole, dimension granite quarry in the world. : @travelikealocal ... My hometown. MY maternal grandfather was a stone carver, (he carved tombstones) n the sheds along the Barre-Montpelier road. 2d. 18. View all 4 replies. Mark Laverriere.

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Barre History Collection

He emigrated to Barre, Vermont, in 1899 to join his Barclay cousins working at the Barclay Brothers granite shed. On 24 December 1903 he married Christina M. Edwards and they had two daughters, Margaret Edwards (1907-1987) and Mary Ellen (1910-1992). Around 1911, Scott quit the granite industry to open Fairmount Poultry Farm in Graniteville ...

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Barre Italian Life 1890-1920

Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 During the late 19th to early 20th Centuries, the small town of Barre, Vermont grew exponentially. This was due, in part, to the emerging granite Industry, which …

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Granite Jobs, Employment in Barre, VT

21 Granite jobs available in Barre, VT on Indeed. Apply to Architectural Designer, Industrial Engine Technician, Landscape Technician and more!

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Italians in Barre: The early years | News

In the 1920s and 1930s, more Italians came to Barre from Hardwick (the other major Vermont granite center) as the building granite business declined, as well as from the lesser centers of Northfield, South Ryegate, and Waterbury.

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Barre History Collection

Barre, Vermont. They purchased a dark gray granite quarry on Millstone Hill, Barre, and leased a granite manufacturing shed from Mackie & Simpson, on 46 Granite Street. By 1890, Dayton E. and Hugh J. M. Jones had joined the business. In his History of the Granite Industry in New England (1913), Arthur Brayley notes that "…in 1895 they built ...

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In Barre, Farm Greens Grow in a Former Granite Shed

Greg Kelly and Jake Isham have come a long way together since they met in 2016. At the time, Kelly, 61, was trying to grow lettuce in the basement of a mutual friend of his and Isham's — and it ...

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The Anarchist Movement in Barre, 1920 — Vermont …

Dewey Day: A Century Ends, 1899 The Age of Trolleys, 1901 Early Autos in Vermont, 1902 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1907 "Number Please": The Telephone Comes to Vermont, 1910 The Long Trail, 1910 Early Aviation, 1910 The 4-H in Vermont, 1914 Traveling Entertainment: The Chautauquas, 1915 World War I: Camp Vail, 1916 The Flu Epidemic, 1918 The Co-op …

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Favorite Barre Vermont Memories | ## **Barre Granite sheds…

## **Barre Granite sheds,1917** Photographer: L. L. McAllister Library of Congress

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published by the Barre Granite Association, Barre, Vermont

In celebration of the Barre Granite Association's Centennial this year, Barre Life continues the exciting story of the devel­ opment of Barre into the Granite Center of the World. The cover …

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Barre History Collection

Vermont Historical Society • Barre, VT 05641-4209. Barre History Collection . J. Alfred Healy . Papers, 1890-1914 . ... :09 Bianchi Shed Photograph (reprint), n.d. :10 "Old Bolster Shed" Photographs, n.d. ... Committee of the Granite Industries, 1920 :04 Bill of Prices Governing Granite Cutters (Granite Cutters'

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Historical Timeline

Water-powered granite sawing, grinding and polishing machines were introduced into Barre's granite sheds. The first stone cutting and polishing lathes were installed.

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Politics of Barre · Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 · Digital …

During the strike, granite workers demanded better working conditions to help prevent carvers from developing silicosis and other such occupational diseases. Eventually the quarry owners …

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, April 19, 1920, …

The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > The Barre daily times. > April 19, 1920 > Page 5, Image 5 Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

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Stonecutters Ply Their Trade In Barre Granite Sheds

This week on Vermont Edition, we're hearing from people who have worked as masters and apprentices in the Vermont Folklife Center's "Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program," which is celebrating its twentieth year.. The …

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Barre Italian Life 1890-1920

Most of the Italian men in Barre worked in the granite industry, populating the quarries and carving sheds besides immigrants from other countries such as Scotland and Canada.

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Barre Vermont Genealogy

Barre Vermont Genealogy contains history, birth records, death records, marriage records, census records, tax records, court records, and military records. ... History of Granite Manufacturing in Barre, Vermont; Lists of Early Barre, Vermont People; Oral Histories of Barre ... Births 1920-1930; Births 1930; Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765 ...

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Solid Men in the Granite City: Municipal Socialism in …

Vermont History Vol. 83, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2015): 43–81. ... Solid Men in the Granite City: Municipal Socialism in Barre, Vermont, 1916-1931 Between 1916 and 1931 Barre, Vermont, elected two socialist mayors, Robert Gordon and Fred …

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Home/School Life · Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 · Digital Vermont…

During the evenings, there was a different type of school being held. In 1911, Carlo Abate established the Barre Evening Drawing School, which aimed to teach the classical Italian style of drawing and design, particularly statues and architecture, to young men in the granite industry.

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Granite | Department of Environmental Conservation

The introduction of the steam drill in the 1920s permitted quicker removal of the stone. The use of explosives and pneumatic drills and the adoption of electric batteries increased production. In …

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BECK & BECK GRANITE SHED | William G.

beck & beck granite shed has been placed on the national register of historic places in 2011 by the united states department of the interior william g. pomeroy foundation 2019

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Written in Stone | The Artisans of Hope Cemetery

So I kinda overlooked my father's wishes and went into the granite business." This issue of Barre Life features a photo of local stonecutters in the 1920s, a time when silicosis was still claiming many lives among those who worked in the granite sheds. Photo Credit : Courtesy of the Aldrich Public Library, Barre, Vermont

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Gandin Brothers

Gandin Brothers, Inc. was established in 1912 by Louis Gandin, and Italian immigrant who was later joined in the 1920's by his brother, Tony. Tony operated the business until his death in 1969; brothers Allen and Butch (Tony's sons) became the leaders with Allen retiring as President in 1992. Butch, along with his son Tom, […]

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Italians in Barre: The early years | News

This is the latest in a monthly column on Vermont's granite industry provided by the Vermont Granite Museum of Barre. Conditions in Italy during the 1880s and 1890s were uncertain Italy had become unified only a decade …

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Overview, 1900-1989 — Vermont Historical Society

Dewey Day: A Century Ends, 1899 The Age of Trolleys, 1901 Early Autos in Vermont, 1902 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1907 "Number Please": The Telephone Comes to Vermont, 1910 The Long Trail, 1910 Early Aviation, 1910 The 4-H in Vermont, 1914 Traveling Entertainment: The Chautauquas, 1915 World War I: Camp Vail, 1916 The Flu Epidemic, 1918 The Co-op …

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Barre's granite timeline, going all the way back

This was a landmark study of silicosis and silicosis-induced tuberculosis in Vermont's granite industry. 1930: Ten Barre granite firms were consolidated into the Rock of Age Corporation, representing about one-third of all the granite manufactured in Barre. 1933: Wage reductions triggered a strike. The National Guard was called out to restore calm.

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R.I.P., Vincent Illuzzi Sr., Granite Sculptor, 1920-2013

Granite sculptor Vincent Illuzzi, Sr. — father of the well-known former Essex/Orleans County senator — passed away yesterday, July 31. He was 93.Born in 1920...

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