Eighteen thousand people worked in the Barre granite industry at its peak in 1929 — quarrying the rock, carving and shaping the stone, creating the tools used in the stone sheds. These days, that ...

This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont’s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. The Vermont Granite Museum is currently preparing to install a railroad ...

The Vermont Agency of Transportation wrote Thursday that upgrades to 29 bridges between Rutland, Bennington, and Hoosick, New ...

330 million years ago: Barre granite was formed. Late 1700s/early 1800s: Stone masons (often part-time farmers) split granite boulders into foundation stones, steps, sills, lentils, hearthstones and ...

BARRE Three cars of the granite train that just resumed running through Barre and Montpelier for the first time in years derailed Thursday near Willey Street in what has been called a minor accident.

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If one’s final earthly travel destination is a graveyard, then the penultimate stop might well be Barre, Vt., the self-proclaimed “granite center of the world.” Here, in the scenic foothills of the ...