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After a developer proposed demolishing a historic granite house to build apartments, the city developed plans to move and ...
QUINCY – If you haven't been up to the Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum in a while (or ever), you're in for several inviting changes. This has been called a "quiet gem" of Quincy's history.
“We all swam in the quarries,” said Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum president Al Bina, 79. “We knew it was dangerous, but it was almost a rite of passage and it was a good time ...
The Bunker Hill Monument acted as the catalyst for the growth of Quincy’s quarries. Stoneworkers from Finland, Italy, Scandinavia, Sudan, and more came to work in the “Granite City.” ...
Rathore thought the Quincy Quarries Reservation, part of Quincy’s former granite quarries, would have a gear-rental counter, an idea that made me chuckle. But my impression of the quarries was ...
After years of planning and weeks of testing, the state’s newest methane power project is on the grid – at the Granite Links Golf Club. Instead of burning the methane with a flare, as is done ...
Quincy granite soon became synonymous with superior ... and later the offices of South Shore Paving. In May 1990, the Quarry Museum opened on the first floor, offering a peek into Quincy’s ...
Quincy, some 40 miles to Fall River's north ... when 22 new mills were built and many more were enlarged, Fall River's granite quarries flourished. Among others, there were Maj.
QUINCY, Mass., June 18.—A sale of the Quincy Granite Quarries Company was effected to-day. William H. Russell of New York bidding the property in in the interest of the reorganization committee ...
Quincy's mayor plans to move a historic granite house to the Quarry and Granite Workers Museum to save it from demolition. Historical Commission members suggested more visible locations and ...