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    WORLDS HEAVIEST STONE IS QUARRIED

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    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.
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    WILL REPAIR THE CHURCH

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    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.
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    SENATOR GRIFFITH HONORED

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    ​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:
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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.