Vermont’s Marble Industry (Images of America)

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The marble deposits in Vermont are one of the vital richest on the planet. Vermont’s Marble Industry takes readers deep throughout the quarries of the Green Mountain State to show how stone used to be sawed and raised from the earth to be cut, polished, and carved into monuments and structures that lately are spread across the country. Right through the late 1800s, the marble industry flourished and the mighty Vermont Marble Company used to be started by a local circle of relatives. The patriarch of the Proctor circle of relatives built the Vermont Marble Company into the largest stone company on the planet. They hired immigrant workers to fuel the company, and the region became a melting pot of nationalities. After World War II, demand for blocks of heavy dimension stone diminished and the slow demise of the Vermont Marble Company started. Vermont’s Marble Industry proudly tells the history of the marble workers, their skilled craftsmanship, and the communities that relied in this industry.

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