Cape Ann Granite Company

The assets of the cape ann granite company were purchased by the rockport granite company in a consolidation that created the undisputed leviathan of the local stone industry.

Cape ann granite company.

Gift of tamara greeman 2011 2011 34. By the 1850s the stone business was firmly established and cape ann granite was known throughout the region. Initially the new company took its products by cart down to lanes cove for shipment. Map originally printed in paris 1613.

By the mid 1800s cape ann was known for its specialization in granite production specifically in creating paving blocks for roads and streets and were used across the united states from new york to san francisco. With the civil war drawing to an end. Mixed colors grey green rose and tan brown. The rockport granite company purchased in 1893 the property of the cape ann granite company located in bayview gloucester mass comprising land tenements tools and vessel property.

A variety of natural top pavers made by splitting reclaimed curbing of many styles and sizes. The rgc is poised to deliver millions of paving stones up and down the eastern seaboard playing a vital role in the reconstruction era. The legacy of the barre stone sculptors and their stone. In repositioning from bay view to pigeon cove the cape ann granite company traced an arc almost completely across the hinterlands of halibut point first from the western then the eastern flank of lanesville.

Click here for super hi resolution photo of blood ledge quarry chapters on a quarry wall the quarry photography of leslie d. Give me your hands. Construction of a fort at castle island in boston harbor in 1798 followed by a jail in nearby salem in 1813 jump started the granite business here on cape ann. During the 1830s and 1840s the trade grew steadily.

Purchase price of 90 000. French owed the company about 75 000. The bartlett erkkila timeline of cape ann granite. History of cape ann map drawn by samuel de champlain ca.