Welcome to the world’s largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry. 600 feet deep and filled with milky-green water, there's still plenty to see above ground. You can tour the site, as a van takes visitors up the bumpy road overlooking the site. Once an operation of hundreds of men chipping away at the seemingly endless reserve is now manned by only seven people and a few massive machines. That van ride up to the overlook is passed countless piles of granite slabs, because quarry workers simply dump granite with fractures or cracks into sections called 'grout piles'. That term hales from the Scottish word for 'scrap', as most of the original workers from 1885 were from Scotland. These grout piles can be seen all over Barre, Vermont. After the ride, enjoy a self-guided tour of the granite plant, where you'll see MASSIVE blocks of granite moved, sliced, and polished. You'll even see some pieces engraved for gravesites, as the vast majority of American granite headstones are made right here. This place is definitely worth a visit.
18 ноя 2019
