Americas First Marble Quarry Dorset Vermont
by Tom Wurl
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Americas First Marble Quarry Dorset Vermont
Artist
Tom Wurl
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Photograph - Photographs
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This was taken in Dorset, Vermont.
Dorset Marble Quarry is the country's first commercial marble quarry opened by Isaac Underhill in 1785 on the land of Reuben Bloomer. Over the next 130 years, this quarry along with two dozen or more others located on the slopes of Dorset Mountain and Mt. Aeolus provided marble for headstones, lintels, hearth. Also used in the construction of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.
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November 3rd, 2013
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