CHANCE TO VENTURE INSIDE. ERIKA: WHAT DO HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HAVE IN COMMON? THE TINY TOWN OF DORSET, VERMONT. THIS IS WHERE ALL THAT STATELY MARBLE CAME FROM. OUR ...

Dorset, VT: The Town That Marble Made What do Harvard Medical School and the New York Public Library have in common? The tiny town of Dorset Vermont. THIS is where all that stately marble came ...

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For almost two decades most of Arlington National Cemetery’s row after row of gleaming, standing white marble headstones have come from one Vermont quarry. Granite Industries, the company that makes ...

There is a hidden jewel in Dorset, Vermont. One that has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today and many travel magazines. It is one that people come from all over the world to visit. A ...

Men waving red flags and shouting a warning to townspeople to watch out for flying stone was a common sight in the early days of quarrying. "Through The Ages" in January 1924 depicted a typical ...

Before the formation of the Vermont Marble Co., most workers in the marble industry of the 1850s and 1860s worked for small companies and lived in company houses of every size and shape. The most ...

Stacks of marble at the Vermont Marble Company in 1915 (Credit Collection of the Vermont Marble Museum Preservation Trust of Vermont) A crane in the marble quarry in 1910 (Credit Collection of the ...