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Historic Articles on Stone Quarrying

 

This page contains historical articles on stone quarrying take from newspapers, magazines and other sources. The original articles were processed with OCR software, convert to html text and any illustrations scanned and added to their respective webpages. The articles come from the author’s personal collection. All of the articles date from prior 1920 and are in the public domain. No copyright is claimed for these articles.

1852 - “The Marble Quarries of Carrara [Italy]”

1890 - “In the Marble Hills [Vermont Quarries]”

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