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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
4428Somesville and Hall Quarry Historical Summaries
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Poetry
  • Other, Somesville
  • Doris Grant
Description:
One double-sided mimeographed page which includes two historical essays: "Somesville, a Pleasant Place, A Goodly Heritage" and "Hall Quarry, An Interesting Place" and well as one unattributed poem, "The Cemetery Road."
17278A Collection of Articles about Hall Quarry
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Granite Quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, History
  • Troy, Bill
  • Unpublished
16676Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn't There
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Baseball Gear, Baseball
  • Other, Depressions
  • Other, Games
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Prohibition
  • Other, Smuggling
  • O'Neill, Susan
  • 1978
Description:
28-page typewritten manuscript about history of Hall Quarry.
16674"An Almost Lost Art in Today's Industrial World"
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Standard Granite Company
  • Other, Tools & implements
  • Troy, Bill
  • 1985
Description:
14-page typewrittten manuscript about history of Hall Quarry; includes bibliography.
16673The Pink Granite of Somes Sound
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Truax, C.V.
  • 1972
Description:
Article from Down East magazine, October 1972. Title not on article, but is listed on bibliography, which is in same folder.
12967Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn’t There
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Quarries
  • O’Neill, Susan and Bill Troy
  • 1978
Description:
Covers the beginnings of the village, boom years, growing pains and the end of the Standard Granite Company, renewal, good times and hard, its decline and rise, and Hall Quarry now.
12873An Investigation of the Granite Quarry Industry in Hancock County, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Hancock County
  • Other, Quarries
  • Domingos, Frank Eugene
  • Univ. of Maine
  • 1967
Description:
Study of granite industry in Hancock Co., Maine, after Civil War to locate major quarry sites, ownership of quarries, types of granite products, characteristics of granite centers, and causes for the decline of the industry.
12009Ed Pete Richardson
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
Description:
Manuscript written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s, about Ed Pete Richardson of Hall Quarry. Mentions entertainment in A.J. Whiting's Hall, including "Nick o' the Woods" ; picking up mail in Somesville and delivering it to C.J. Hall's store to be picked up; sharpening tools for the granite cutters; blueberry picking and sales, bears in Hall Quarry, the arrival of "Hell Wagons" (automobiles) on the island. [show more]
12008Peddlers of Long Ago
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Peddlers
  • 1983
Description:
Article by Doris Grant in New England Sampler: Peddlers of Long Ago, peddlers who came to Hall Quarry and other MDI villages. Mentions Charles and Ralph Sawyer, who began as peddlers, then opened a store in Southwest Harbor.
12007The Paving Cutter and His Trade
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Macaroni Hill
  • Other, Peanut Row
  • September 1978
Description:
Article in Maine Life by Doris Grant of Hall Quarry: The Paving Cutter and His Trade. (Part of photograph and article has been cut out.) Glossary of paving cutter's tools.
12006The Chapel at Hall Quarry
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Granite
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Hall Quarry School
  • Other, Leavitt
  • Other, The Chapel, Hall Quarry
Description:
Memories of the chapel at Hall Quarry, written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s: 2 handwritten versions (They have not been compared to see if they are identical. Mentions its use as a school and community center as well as a religious building. References to Horace Leavitt, minister; Mandy Perkins, Sunday school superintendent, and Bill Grant, organist. Marked as copies a (5 pages) and b(4 pages).
3883Bibliography of Hall Quarry
  • Document, List, Bibliography
  • Other, Hall Quarry
Description:
Single page bibliography: Books, Thesis [sic[, Magazines/Papers, Tapes. No date, no indication of compiler.
2063Granite Cutters’ National Union
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Unions
  • 1904
Description:
Granite Cutters’ National Union initiation receipt for fifteen dollars for H. L. Stanley signed by W. B. Rour