Decorative granite element outside the Vermont Granite Museum, located within an 1890s manufacturing plant in Barre (pronounced "Barry"), Vermont

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Barre is the self-proclaimed "Granite Center of the World," initially established with the discovery of vast granite deposits at Millstone Hill soon after the War of 1812. The fame of this vast deposit of granite, soon spread to Europe and Canada. The city soon attracted granite artisans from Italy and elsewhere around the world.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.