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5900Cranes at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Cranes at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 5900   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
16089D. Marino & Co's. Store, Hall Quarry, Me.
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
D. Marino & Co's. Store, Hall Quarry, Me.
Item:
  • 16089   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection
12881Hall Quarry
McMullen Quarry
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
This quarry was "in the town of Mount Desert, southeast of the village of 'Hall Quarry' and four-fifths mile north of the Robinson Mountains." The operator was the Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co., 208 Broadway, New York. The granite was reportedly a light-buff grayish color with a coarse to medium texture. Accessory minerals: Apatite and a little secondary calcite within the oligoclase. Granite quarrying began as early as 1870 on Mount Desert Island at Hall's Quarry. Four major companies operated at Hall's Quarry from 1870 to 1965, the first being the Standard Granite Company, followed by McMullen Granite Co., Booth Brothers and Hurricane Island Granite Company and Grenci and Ellis Granite Co. All shipped stone for major building contracts all over the United States. In 1905 the quarry measured 250 feet north to south by 250 feet from east to west. The quarry had a depth of 50 feet at the west side. Transport of the granite was by track 800 feet to the wharf, which was accessible to schooners of 20 feet draft. Granite from this quarry was used in the following examples: the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the basement of the New York Customhouse; the Brooklyn anchorage to the Manhattan Bridge; and the bridge over the Potomac at Washington. The Commercial Granites of New England, Bulletin 738 By T. Nelson Dale - Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923. - p. 222-223
Hall Quarry
McMullen Quarry
Item:
  • 12881   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Description:
This quarry was "in the town of Mount Desert, southeast of the village of 'Hall Quarry' and four-fifths mile north of the Robinson Mountains." The operator was the Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co., 208 Broadway, New York. The granite was reportedly a light-buff grayish color with a coarse to medium texture. Accessory minerals: Apatite and a little secondary calcite within the oligoclase. Granite quarrying began as early as 1870 on Mount Desert Island at Hall's Quarry. Four major companies operated at Hall's Quarry from 1870 to 1965, the first being the Standard Granite Company, followed by McMullen Granite Co., Booth Brothers and Hurricane Island Granite Company and Grenci and Ellis Granite Co. All shipped stone for major building contracts all over the United States. In 1905 the quarry measured 250 feet north to south by 250 feet from east to west. The quarry had a depth of 50 feet at the west side. Transport of the granite was by track 800 feet to the wharf, which was accessible to schooners of 20 feet draft. Granite from this quarry was used in the following examples: the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the basement of the New York Customhouse; the Brooklyn anchorage to the Manhattan Bridge; and the bridge over the Potomac at Washington. The Commercial Granites of New England, Bulletin 738 By T. Nelson Dale - Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923. - p. 222-223 [show more]
13955Hall Quarry School
  • Reference
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
The Hall Quarry School was on the north corner of Hall Quarry Road and Musetti Drive, now [2017] a vacant lot.
Hall Quarry School
Item:
  • 13955   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Description:
The Hall Quarry School was on the north corner of Hall Quarry Road and Musetti Drive, now [2017] a vacant lot.
6933Houses at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
The image shown here is put together from two postcards that were meant as one panorama.
Houses at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 6933   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Tags:
zoomable
Description:
The image shown here is put together from two postcards that were meant as one panorama.
7622Men at Work at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Men at Work at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 7622   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection
11169Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 11169   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Ralph Warren Stanley Collection
11170Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 11170   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Ralph Warren Stanley Collection
5899Tracks at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Tracks at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 5899   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
6863Winter Scene at Hall Quarry
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Winter Scene at Hall Quarry
Item:
  • 6863   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
16090Winter Scene at Hall Quarry, Me
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Winter Scene at Hall Quarry, Me
Item:
  • 16090   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Places, Town
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • The Ward Family Collection