Rock of Ages has attracted visitors since at least 1924, when the company built a “Retiring Room” for guests to observe the quarry in action, according to its website. It introduced tours in 1930. The ...
Ahead of us was the old Marr and Gordon granite quarry, dormant for more than a century, one of seventy-five open pits on this hill in Barre, Vermont. What remains is a wild hole, half regrown, ...
Polycor Inc., the parent company of Rock of Ages in Graniteville, gifted two paintings and one sketch by Norman Rockwell to ...