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the first quarry north of the river; owned as now since 1874; workmen, about 5; sales 
yearly, $3,000, formerly (in 1874) $8,000. 
George F. Parker: quarry near the last; opened in 1869; annual product, formerly, 
$4,000, now $1,200. 
Albert Carlton: near the foregoing; opened in 1876; workmen, 2; annual sales, 
about $1,500. 
Kittredge & Palmer: same locality; opened in 1874; annual sales, about $1,500. 
Parker Fletcher: same locality ; annual sales, about $1,000. 
Newton Perham: quarry in edge of Amherst, teaming to Milford; yearly product, 
about $1,000. 
Granite dealers in Milford, who dress the stone but do not own quarries, are Isaac H. 
Carlton, Charles S. Barnes, Marvell & Weaver, Pierce Perham, and Frank Frost. 
Fitzwilliam. The granite quarries in Fitzwilliam are principally situated beside or 
near the railroad in the vicinity of the depot. Brief notes respecting them are as fol- 
lows : 
Daniel H. Reed: quarries one half mile south of the depot; opened in 1816; owned 
and worked as now since 1864, on a tract of 300 acres, mostly of granite suitable for 
quarrying. Five openings are now worked, two of them supplying large amounts. 
Quarrymen, Io to 30; average number of cutters, 5. Sales in 1869, $40,000; now, 
about $15,000 yearly. A part of this granite lies in straight sheets, varying in thick- 
ness from a few inches to a foot, from which flagstones of any desired extent can be 
obtained. Largest block sold, 12 feet long by 4 feet square, weighing 16 tons; 
largest sheet, 16 by 9 by 1 foot. The statues on Horticultural hall in Boston, and St. 
Paul’s church in Worcester, are from this granite. 
Albert Hayden: quarry one fourth mile north of the depot; opened in 1872; 6 
workmen; yearly sales, about $5,000. Kruff’s block, Pearl street, Boston, was from 
this quarry. 
A. D. Stone & Company: quarry about 13 miles north of Fitzwilliam village, team- 
ing to Troy depot, 2 miles. Workmen, formerly, 20; no work done last year. 
The following quarries are beside the railroad, one mile west of Fitzwilliam depot: 
Ethan Blodgett & Company: quarry opened in 1867. Average number of quarry- 
men, 16; of cutters, 9. Sales in 1873, about $20,000; last year, $12,000. Largest 
block, 10 by 7 by 2% feet, weighing 153 tons. Shafts 20 feet long by 3% feet square 
can be supplied. Specialty, monumental and cemetery work. T. K. Earle’s house 
in Worcester, the court house in Fitchburg, and the trimmings of Morse Institute in 
Natick, Mass., are from this quarry. 
R. L. Angier: quarry opened in 1865. Average number of quarrymen, 8; of cut- 
ters, 8. Value of product in 1873, $10,000; in 1877, $6,000. Largest block, 16 feet 
long by 24 feet square, weighing 15 tons; could supply 20 feet long by 3 feet square; 
has sold blocks 6 feet square and 2 feet thick; could supply 10 feet square and 3 feet 
thick. Trimmings of Murdock block, and of the National Bank, in Winchendon, 
Mass., and the Soldiers’ monument in Granville, N. Y., are from this quarry. 
