Name: Cape Ann Granite (en Inglés)
SKU: 56501758
Price: 34.02 USD
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Author: Germain, Paul St
ISBN: 9781467123631

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Paul St Germain

Editorial

Arcadia Publishing (SC)

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

128

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.1x16.3x1 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781467123631

Categorías

Ee. uu. nordeste: nueva inglaterra
Fotografía y fotógrafos
Historia de américa
Historia local
Lugares y personas: obras generales y pictóricas

Cape Ann Granite (en Inglés)

Paul St Germain (Autor) · Arcadia Publishing (SC) · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Cape Ann Granite (en Inglés)"

Paul St. Germain has been a Rockport resident for 20 years and has developed a revealing record of the men, the quarries, the tools, and the final uses of Cape Ann granite around the nation.The granite industry began on Cape Ann with the first sale of a piece of Rockport granite, for use as a millstone, to a farmer in Newburyport in 1800. The industry would grow to include more than 60 quarries and operations around the cape, becoming the second-largest economic force in the area behind fishing. Hundreds were employed as quarrymen, stonecutters, paving cutters, and finishers. Cape Ann was particularly well fitted for the pursuit of granite as its rocky hills and shores afforded a comparatively inexhaustible source of supply, and its splendid shipping facilities gave the advantage of quick and economical transportation to market by sea and land. The industry eventually declined, and by 1930, most quarries had gone out of business because of labor strikes and low demand. Today, most of these quarries are filled with rainwater and springwater, and many are used as reservoirs for the surrounding communities.