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  • Subject is exactly "Granite industry and trade--Vermont--Montpelier"

22 Main Street, Bacon Block

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At the turn of the last century, Charles A. Smith, a dealer in granite and marble, displayed his four teams of horses, the last one pulling a large block of granite, outside of his storefront at 22 Main Street, known as the Bacon Block, where the…

Fig. 40. Rock of Ages Eureka Plant #6, c. 1950.

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Rock of Ages Eureka Plant #6 was diagonally across the street from the Garcia house on River Street in Montpelier.

Fig. 36. Employees of Excelsior Granite Company, 1940s.

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Employees of Excelsior Granite Company inside their employer's shed on Granite Street, Montpelier. The gaunt man in the middle is Alec (Alexandro) Canas, owner of the company, who arrived in Montpelier in 1914 from the Province of Santander in…

Fig. 35. Excelsior Granite Company, 1940s.

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On the east side of Granite Street was the Excelsior Granite plant, which later became the Montpelier Granite Works

Fig. 25. Inside of Bertoli statuary shop, no date.

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The granite operation of Harry J. Bertoli employed approximately fifteen people, six of whom were shaping statues and involved in carving work

Fig. 24. Harry J. Bertoli and sculptors, c. 1892.

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Adjacent to the Pioneer Mills and across the Central Vermont Railroad tracks was a cluster of buildings that housed the granite operation of Harry J. Bertoli.

Fig. 12. Montpelier Granite Works, c. 1896

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Montpelier Granite Works, c. 1896. The Red Arch Bridge can be seen at the left of the photograph and the E. W. Bailey mill can be seen at the right.