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.

What is believed to be the largest block of marble every quarried on the North American continent was removed from the Vermont Marble Company’s quarry in Danby and is now being “roughed out” in Proctor for shipment to Salem, Ore.

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.

​Free Press & Times
Burlington, November 30, 1898

A pleasant feature of the forenoon session of the Senate was the introduction by Senator Peckett of a resolution of appreciation as follows:

At a meeting of the Congregational Church and Society held last evening, it was decided to make some needed repairs and paint and redecorate the church. Mr. Eugene McIntyre offered to loan the society the money needed for the purpose till the legacy of the late S. L. Griffith provided for such purposes could be realized on, the rate of interest to be five per cent.

Proctor Firm Cuts 250-Ton Block of Marble From Mountain in Danby

Preparations are being made by workers of the Vermont Marble company to carve two statues from a block of marble, recently quarried at Danby, said to be the largest stone ever quarried in the world.

Word has been received in Rutland the death of William H. Riddle, aged 58 years, of Brookline, Mass., a former well known resident of this city. The body will be brought to Rutland on the Boston sleeper Thursday morning and taken to the Tossing undertaking rooms, and will be taken on the 10:35 o’clock train Thursday morning to Danby where the funeral services will be held.

​​The Argus
ALBANY, N. Y., JULY 3, 1893.

Freed from the cares of official life by the expiration of his term of office ex-Police Commissioner William J. Walker has turned his attention to angling, and launched himself boldly into the deeper waters of piscatorial pursuits. 

​​ONE OF THE PARTY.
AUGUST 27. 1898.

The Herald prints a communication in regard to the senatorial candidacy, of Mr. Griffith of Danby as an advertisement because we hardly consider it of enough importance to print as news. 

​​LUDLOW, VERMONT
The Vermont Tribune.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898.

We had received an interesting article describing a visit to Danby by several Mount Holly people, but lack of space forbade us to print it last week. It appears below. -ED.