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Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print	Other, Boats Places, Landscape	Unklnown	Hall Quarry, Mt. Desert, Maine		Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-9135 Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print Subject: Other, Boats Places, Landscape Creator: Unklnown Place: Hall Quarry, Mt. Desert, Maine Description: Hall Quarry. In middle ground schooner ready to take on granite. Buildings in the distance. Somes Sound and mountains in the distance. Piles of brick size pieces of granite and small tents in foreground. Group of men working under shade screen in middle right. Spots throughout image.
Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Other, Hall Quarry	Unknown	Hall Quarry, Mt. Desert, Maine		Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-9022 Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Other, Hall Quarry Creator: Unknown Place: Hall Quarry, Mt. Desert, Maine Description: Hall’s Quarry in operation over looking Somes Sound. Tram tracks run to shore. Cut blocks of granite piled near wharf. Three master schooner along side Quarry. Several small buildings visible. Image fading. Water stains at top of photo. Lower left hand corner of photo torn.
Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph	Other, Industry - Quarry Other, buildings	LaRue Spiker	Hall Quarry, Maine		Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-10368 Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Subject: Other, Industry - Quarry Other, buildings Creator: LaRue Spiker Place: Hall Quarry, Maine Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Description: Hall Quarry. House near shore on the left. View across Somes Sound.
Hall quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph		Spiker, LaRue	Soutwest Harbor, Maine		Hall quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-11137 Type: Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph Creator: Spiker, LaRue Place: Soutwest Harbor, Maine Collection: LaRue Spiker Collection Description: Smooth rock face with broken rock and water. Building see in background. Notation on back reads: The quarry next to Acadia Mountain
Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph, Negative	Other, Building Places, Landscape	Unknown	Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine		Hall Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-7394 Type: Image, Photograph, Negative Subject: Other, Building Places, Landscape Creator: Unknown Place: Somesville, Mt. Desert, Maine Description: Hall Quarry, quarry . In middle ground schooner ready to take on granite. Buildings in the distance. Somes Sound and mountains in the distance. Piles of brick size pieces of granite and small tents in foreground. Spots throughout image.
Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library	Reference	Businesses, Quarry Operation Places, Town		Mount Desert, Hall Quarry		Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-7337 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Places, Town Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Description: The settlement of Hall Quarry in located in the town of Mount Desert on Mount Desert Island and was home to a granite quarry. The quarry's location alongside of Somes Sound proved very beneficial, as it allowed the schooners to land very close to the quarry to load the granite and transport it to various ports.
Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Quarry Operation Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner		Mount Desert, Hall Quarry		Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Identifier: nehl-5407 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Collection: Photograph Description: B/W Photograph taken from east side of the Sound looking west toward Hall Quarry, with quarry schooners at dock and anchored in the Sound. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Hall Quarry McMullen Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Quarry Operation		Mount Desert, Hall Quarry	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Hall Quarry McMullen Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12881 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Quarry Operation Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Description: This quarry was "in the town of Mount Desert, southeast of the village of 'Hall Quarry' and four-fifths mile north of the Robinson Mountains." The operator was the Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co., 208 Broadway, New York. The granite was reportedly a light-buff grayish color with a coarse to medium texture. Accessory minerals: Apatite and a little secondary calcite within the oligoclase. Granite quarrying began as early as 1870 on Mount Desert Island at Hall's Quarry. Four major companies operated at Hall's Quarry from 1870 to 1965, the first being the Standard Granite Company, followed by McMullen Granite Co., Booth Brothers and Hurricane Island Granite Company and Grenci and Ellis Granite Co. All shipped stone for major building contracts all over the United States. In 1905 the quarry measured 250 feet north to south by 250 feet from east to west. The quarry had a depth of 50 feet at the west side. Transport of the granite was by track 800 feet to the wharf, which was accessible to schooners of 20 feet draft. Granite from this quarry was used in the following examples: the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the basement of the New York Customhouse; the Brooklyn anchorage to the Manhattan Bridge; and the bridge over the Potomac at Washington. The Commercial Granites of New England, Bulletin 738 By T. Nelson Dale - Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923. - p. 222-223 [show more]
Hall Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library	Map	Places			Copyright Not Evaluated	Hall Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-2235 Type: Map Subject: Places

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