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1873, about 20 quarrymen and 80 cutters were employed, with sales amounting to 
$200,000; there are now 4 quarrymen and 25 cutters, with a yearly product of $20,000. 
Largest block, 18 tons; could supply one 40 by 20 by 6 feet in dimension. Buildings 
from this quarry are the Equitable Life Insurance Co. (above the basement), Staats 
Zeitung building, and Germania Savings Bank, in New York; the Charter Oak Life 
Insurance Co. (above the basement), in Hartford; and the City hall and Horticultural 
hall, in Boston. 
Norton & Holmes (formerly, till 1878, P. E. Blanchard’s quarry): opened in 1865. 
In 1873, 20 men were employed in quarrying and 60 in cutting, the yearly sales being 
about $45,000; they are now $8,000. This quarry supplied the basement and trim- 
mings for the first three stories of the Tribune building, New York; the Washington and 
Eddy street fronts of the City hall in Providence; Bemis block, near the Transcript 
building, in Boston ; and the Soldiers’ monument in Georgetown, Mass. 
Donagan & Davis: quarry opened in 1872. In 1873, 15 quarrymen and 4 cutters 
were employed; sales, $75,000. No quarrying has been done for two years. Some 
fo cutters are now employed, the sales being about $10,000. The largest block of 
granite ever taken from Concord was supplied by this quarry, being the base of the 
Soldiers’ monument at Marlborough, Mass., 84 feet square by 34 feet thick, weighing 
224 tons. Shafts could be got 18 feet long and 4 feet square. The building of the 
New England Life Insurance Co., in Boston, was from this quarry. 
Fuller & Pressy: quarry opened in 1865. In 1873 about 25 men were employed in 
quarrying, the sales amounting to $20,000; now 15 men are employed, the sales being 
about $7,000, all unhammered stone. The largest blocks supplied have weighed 15 to 
20 tons; shafts could be got 18 feet long and 3 feet square. Jordan & Marsh’s build- 
ing in Boston is from this quarry; also, the Manchester, N. H., Soldiers’ monument. 
Abijah Hollis: quarry opened in 1865. In 1873, 12 men were employed in quarry- 
ing; at present about 8 are at work. All the stone is sold: rough: Largest blocks 
ever sent away, 18% tons; could get a block measuring 100 by 30 by 12 feet. Exam- 
ples of the stone from this quarry are the Ether monument, Boston public garden; 
the Cadet monument, Mount Auburn cemetery; and the Soldiers’ monument at Con- 
cord, Mass. 
Gay Brothers: quarry opened in 1865; purchased by present owners in 1876. Men 
employed in 1873 and now, about 6,—all in quarrying. 
Crowley & Quinn: quarry opened in 1864. In 1873, Io men, all at quarrying, with 
sales amounting to $5,000; in 1877, 3 in quarrying and 4 in cutting, with sales of 
about $3,000. Largest block, 104 by 5 by 33 feet; could supply shaft 20 feet long and 
3 feet square. 
Putney & Nutting: quarry opened about 1850. In 1873, 6 men were employed, all 
in quarrying, with $5,000 sales; now, very little is done. The Masonic Temple in 
Boston is from this quarry. 
G. W. Emerton: quarry opened in 1875; 5 quarrymen and 5 cutters; yearly sales, 
about $8,000. 
