In a recent drive up Rattlesnake Hill, Kurt Swenson found the quarry he once owned eerily quiet. Gone were the employees who sliced blocks of stone from walls a hundred-plus feet down from the edge, a ...
A man was killed Thursday when a piece of granite fell on him in Oglethorpe County, according to Coroner Howard Sanders.Sanders said the accident happened just before 10:15 a.m. at Blue Sky Granite ...
Tragedy in a granite quarry, this afternoon, in Buddusò. A 73-year-old retired entrepreneur, Pietro Bua, died after being crushed by a slab of granite in the Bua Graniti quarry, of which he was the ...
An employee who died Monday in a workplace accident at Cosmos Granite in Raleigh was struck by a 600-pound slab of granite that fell off a truck, according to a preliminary report by the state ...
This story is the latest installment in "Past Times," a series about Fall River the way people remember it and the way history recorded it. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble would have been right at ...
Editor s note: This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. Many of these articles are based on audio/videotaped ...
Rattlesnake Hill Quarrymen pictured in 1890 transporting harvested granite down Rattlesnake Hill to the granite cutting sheds on North State Street. Credit: James W. Spain photo Martin prepared to ...
Q. Granite countertops are still very popular, and I love the look of natural stone. But I can't afford the giant thick slabs of granite. I've seen the thinner, affordable granite tile and wonder how ...
BRANFORD >> If you’ve ever wondered what 600 million years of history looks like, Saturday morning is your chance to find out. The Stony Creek Museum and the Guilford Keeping Society will hold a tour ...
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