They may have cut stone elsewhere as the galamander in a recent reprint is heading to the works on the Sands. Hotel is behind the team. Or it may be it was returning something from the polishing mill next to my grandfather's grain mill. This would have been before 1907 as the water rights to the millstream were sold by the Bodwell Company to the mill. As I grew up the polishing mill was gone and Grandfather put a fence around it.
The mill used waterpower to grind corn and perhaps other grains before going to gasoline engines and finally electricity. When some debris clogged up things it was pretty dicey to go down to free things.
Silicosis and tuberculosis were rampant, especially among the stone cutters that worked under cover.
In the 20's my father, Chris Roberts, and a man named Jones had a quarry on the left above the pond on the North Haven Road. Paving cutters lined the road by the pond making paving blocks.
When we went for a ride on Sunday we visited the quarry and looked at the hole in the ground. We moved to Rockland in 1926. I have no idea how long Dad had an interest. In late life Mother said he told her he lost no money in the venture but she had her doubts.
-used from the middle of the nineteenth century to the early 1900's,
these giant carts moved granite from the quarries.
"JUMBO," the largest, shown here, had wheels over 12 feet.
Forgot to enclose this with the Quarry Card. Have given some thought to why it was going towards the Sands. Now believe it was transporting stone from a Quarry on Amburst (?) Hill on the other side of the bridges to the finishing area on the Sands.
These were painted "Littlefield Blue."
New York
The North Elevation
I don't know if you ever entered the Cathedral of St. John the Divine while at Columbia. I did because of these columns.
An attempt was made to turn them out in one piece but they broke on the lathe so they were turned out in two sections. The transport by ship, unloading and transport to the cathedral plus erection were engineering feats beyond belief.
I no longer recall what they looked like or if they were polished.
At the time New York and other cities were full of Maine granite- from paving blocks and curb stone on up.
At one entrance to the Museum of Natural History in New York there was a huge boulder from Vinalhaven. It had scratch marks across the top from the glacier.