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    DORSET MT. QUARRY MARBLE USED IN ERECTING SUPREME COURT BUILDING

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    By Mary Gilbert Smith

    Mount Aeolus, also called Dorset mountain and Green Peak, might have been appropriately named Marble mountain. The first marble quarried in Vermont came from the Dorset quarry on one side of it. The quarry was opened in 1785, after many cemetery headstones had been split from the mountain ledges. The first important contract was secured in 1836 for the Custom house in Erie, PA.
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    DANBY MARBLE FOR JFK MEMORIAL

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    By Marchen Skinner
    March 23, 1966

    Danby Imperial marble taken from Vermont Marble Company’s 15-acre underground quarry here has been selected for the John F. Kennedy graveside memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, Va.

    The monument with its presidential seal carved in relief is scheduled to be completed by Nov. 22, the anniversary of the late president’s death.
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    VERMONT MARBLE PARTS WITH ITS DANBY QUARRY

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    European Conglomerate Signs Long-Term Lease
    By Bruce Edwards

    Already a shadow of its former self, the 122-year-old Vermont Marble Co. on Wednesday announced that it had officially relinquished control over its best known and most valuable asset, the Imperial Quarry in Danby.
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    DANBY QUARRY IN ITS 85TH YEAR

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    By Jo-Anne Mackenzie

    “It wasn’t uncommon to see 100 men in this place 15 or 20 years ago,” said Butch Beckley of Danby. Beckley, a 21-year employee of the Vermont Marble Company in Danby, has seen a number of changes over the course of his employment and a reduction in personnel is one of them. The company now employs 22 men, scattered over three shifts, at the Danby quarry.