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| Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library 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. | |||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: B/W photographs (with descriptions) of Hall Quarry. Part of Stella L. Hill's Hall Quarry Paper (see item 7327 -8). | ||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library 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. | |||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: Overview of an active Hall Quarry showing the loading dock, the quarry, and the village. | ||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: B/W photograph and copies at Hall Quarry of stone being cut for Riverside Drive in NY. | ||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: Hall Quarry of stone being cut for Riverside Drive in NY. | ||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: 2 contact sheets of b/w photographs of people, buildings, and mining sites in Hall Quarry. | ||
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|  Hall Quarry Northeast Harbor Library Description: Aerial view of an active granite mine at Hall Quarry during Arthur McMullen's operation of the quarry, around early 1900's | ||
| Hall Quarry McMullen Quarry Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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] | ||
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