Written in Stone | The Artisans of Hope Cemetery
So I kinda overlooked my father's wishes and went into the granite business." This issue of Barre Life features a photo of local stonecutters in the 1920s, a time when silicosis was still claiming many lives among those who worked in the granite sheds. Photo Credit : Courtesy of the Aldrich Public Library, Barre, Vermont
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The Anarchist Movement in Barre, 1920 — Vermont …
The Anarchist Movement in Barre, 1920: [[$gmc_audio]] Oral history transcriptions Click a name below for more information. All transcripts are in PDF format. Pace ...
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Rock of Ages granite quarry in Barre,...
Rock of Ages granite quarry in Barre, Vermont. At nearly 600 feet deep, it is the largest operating deep-hole, dimension granite quarry in the world. : @travelikealocal ... My hometown. MY maternal grandfather was a stone carver, (he carved tombstones) n the sheds along the Barre-Montpelier road. 2d. 18. View all 4 replies. Mark Laverriere.
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A New Book Reveals a Barre Stonecarver's Leading Role at …
When he was 17, Del Bianco immigrated to Vermont at the invitation of cousins who worked in Barre's granite sheds. At the time, Gladstone notes, the city's thriving granite industry accounted for ...
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Vermont Historical Society HISTORY
times as high as the state average between 1920 and 1939. 12 A study of mortality among granite workers from 1926 to 1936 showed that they died approximately eleven years younger than other Vermont males and that seventy-three percent of the granite cutters had died of silico tuberculosis. 13 Some efforts were made during the ]920s and 1930s to
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Gandin Brothers
Gandin Brothers, Inc. was established in 1912 by Louis Gandin, and Italian immigrant who was later joined in the 1920's by his brother, Tony. Tony operated the business until his death in 1969; brothers Allen and Butch (Tony's sons) became the leaders with Allen retiring as President in 1992. Butch, along with his son Tom, […]
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Barre Italian Life 1890-1920
Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 During the late 19th to early 20th Centuries, the small town of Barre, Vermont grew exponentially. This was due, in part, to the emerging granite Industry, which …
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Solid Men in the Granite City: Municipal Socialism in …
tra of Robert Gordon, who served as the mayor of Barre, Vermont, in 1916, or Fred Suitor, the mayor from 1929 into 1931. ... By 1920, the bulk of the citizenry of nu- ... including Barre's first mayor, granite shed owner Emory L. Smith (1895-96), and mayors William Barclay (1904-07) and Edward Glys-son (1917-20). By 1905, Barre had ...
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Grearson & Lane Company, Granite Turning Shed, Barre, Washington County, VT
Grearson & Lane Company, Granite Turning Shed, Barre, Washington County, VT Contributor Names Historic American Engineering Record, creator Grearson & Lane Company, Inc. ... Grearson & Lane Company, Granite Turning Shed, Barre, Washington County, VT. Vermont Washington County Barre, 1968. Documentation Compiled After.
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Barre History Collection
Barre, Vermont. They purchased a dark gray granite quarry on Millstone Hill, Barre, and leased a granite manufacturing shed from Mackie & Simpson, on 46 Granite Street. By 1890, Dayton E. and Hugh J. M. Jones had joined the business. In his History of the Granite Industry in New England (1913), Arthur Brayley notes that "…in 1895 they built ...
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Historical Timeline
Water-powered granite sawing, grinding and polishing machines were introduced into Barre's granite sheds. The first stone cutting and polishing lathes were installed.
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BECK & BECK GRANITE SHED | William G.
beck & beck granite shed has been placed on the national register of historic places in 2011 by the united states department of the interior william g. pomeroy foundation 2019
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Jones Brothers Granite Shed Description, Barre, VT
Jones Brothers Granite Shed Narrative Description The granite shed on the Jones Brothers property in Barre, Vermont is a long, gabled front building with two shed roofed sheds on either side of the main body. The main body of the granite shed consists of a six bay gable end (running east to west) by a twenty two bay eave side (north to south).
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Barre History Collection
Vermont Historical Society • Barre, VT 05641-4209. Barre History Collection . J. Alfred Healy . Papers, 1890-1914 . ... :09 Bianchi Shed Photograph (reprint), n.d. :10 "Old Bolster Shed" Photographs, n.d. ... Committee of the Granite Industries, 1920 :04 Bill of Prices Governing Granite Cutters (Granite Cutters'
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Politics of Barre · Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 · Digital …
During the strike, granite workers demanded better working conditions to help prevent carvers from developing silicosis and other such occupational diseases. Eventually the quarry owners …
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Italians in Barre: The early years | News
In the 1920s and 1930s, more Italians came to Barre from Hardwick (the other major Vermont granite center) as the building granite business declined, as well as from the lesser centers of Northfield, South Ryegate, and Waterbury.
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In Barre, Farm Greens Grow in a Former Granite Shed
Greg Kelly and Jake Isham have come a long way together since they met in 2016. At the time, Kelly, 61, was trying to grow lettuce in the basement of a mutual friend of his and Isham's — and it ...
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Barre Italian Life 1890-1920
Most of the Italian men in Barre worked in the granite industry, populating the quarries and carving sheds besides immigrants from other countries such as Scotland and Canada.
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Those Other Franco-Americans: Barre, Vermont
Barre, Vermont, has several claims to fame, most recently as the home of the nation's fastest governor.It is also where the late Franco-American folklorist Martha Pellerin grew up.. In fact, Pellerin's life and work help to shed light on Barre's Franco-American past, which is inextricably tied to the area's most important export—world-famous Barre granite.
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Barre's granite timeline, going all the way back
This was a landmark study of silicosis and silicosis-induced tuberculosis in Vermont's granite industry. 1930: Ten Barre granite firms were consolidated into the Rock of Age Corporation, representing about one-third of all the granite manufactured in Barre. 1933: Wage reductions triggered a strike. The National Guard was called out to restore calm.
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Favorite Barre Vermont Memories | ## **Barre Granite sheds…
## **Barre Granite sheds,1917** Photographer: L. L. McAllister Library of Congress
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Granite Jobs, Employment in Barre, VT
21 Granite jobs available in Barre, VT on Indeed. Apply to Architectural Designer, Industrial Engine Technician, Landscape Technician and more!
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Home/School Life · Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 · Digital Vermont…
During the evenings, there was a different type of school being held. In 1911, Carlo Abate established the Barre Evening Drawing School, which aimed to teach the classical Italian style of drawing and design, particularly statues and architecture, to young men in the granite industry.
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GRANITE SHEDS
There it built a large two-story, wood-frame, sixteen-sided circular granite shed with a massive center pole for use as its hoist. Its original sixteen-sided rooftop cupola burned in a …
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Barre Vermont Genealogy
Barre Vermont Genealogy contains history, birth records, death records, marriage records, census records, tax records, court records, and military records. ... History of Granite Manufacturing in Barre, Vermont; Lists of Early Barre, Vermont People; Oral Histories of Barre ... Births 1920-1930; Births 1930; Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765 ...
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Politics of Barre · Barre Italian Life 1890-1920 · Digital Vermont…
One such notable strike was the granite labor strike of 1915. During the strike, granite workers demanded better working conditions to help prevent carvers from developing silicosis and other such occupational diseases. Eventually the quarry owners agreed to the workers demands and improved the ventilation in the granite sheds.
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Granite | Department of Environmental Conservation
The introduction of the steam drill in the 1920s permitted quicker removal of the stone. The use of explosives and pneumatic drills and the adoption of electric batteries increased production. In …
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Stonecutters Ply Their Trade In Barre Granite Sheds
This week on Vermont Edition, we're hearing from people who have worked as masters and apprentices in the Vermont Folklife Center's "Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program," which is celebrating its twentieth year.. The …
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Solid Men in the Granite City: Municipal Socialism in …
Vermont History Vol. 83, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2015): 43–81. ... Solid Men in the Granite City: Municipal Socialism in Barre, Vermont, 1916-1931 Between 1916 and 1931 Barre, Vermont, elected two socialist mayors, Robert Gordon and Fred …
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R.I.P., Vincent Illuzzi Sr., Granite Sculptor, 1920-2013
Granite sculptor Vincent Illuzzi, Sr. — father of the well-known former Essex/Orleans County senator — passed away yesterday, July 31. He was 93.Born in 1920...
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