To make a world-class product you have to have world-class raw materials and a highly skilled workforce. Vermont is blessed with having Barre gray granite, an outstanding rock for making sculptures.

Eighteen thousand people worked in the Barre granite industry at its peak in 1929 — quarrying the rock, carving and shaping the stone, creating the tools used in the stone sheds. These days, that ...

330 million years ago: Barre granite was formed. Late 1700s/early 1800s: Stone masons (often part-time farmers) split granite boulders into foundation stones, steps, sills, lentils, hearthstones and ...

One town over from the state capital of Montpelier, the city of Barre celebrates its unique history as the onetime “Granite Capital of the World.” In the early 20th century, the central Vermont city ...

The city of Barre in central Vermont is home to Vermont’s largest quarrying operation, Rock of Ages, where the beautiful grey stone is excavated from a 600-foot deep cavernous hole. The stone is known ...

If one’s final earthly travel destination is a graveyard, then the penultimate stop might well be Barre, Vt., the self-proclaimed “granite center of the world.” Here, in the scenic foothills of the ...

Editor’s note: This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont’s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. Many of these articles are based ona udio/videotaped ...

ELMORE — As one of the oldest professions, grain-milling has undergone many revolutions over the years. The latest one is underway in a shed next to the bread bakery that Andrew Heyn and Blair Marvin ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A new novel from Vermont author Eric Pope takes us back to Vermont in the early 1900s. Eric Pope is the former owner of the Hardwick Gazette and he says that background helped ...