From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2007.1.70177
Uncle Jim, Myra & Mac ?, West Rutland This view is probably of the Vermont Marble Company's quarry in West Rutland Vermont Marble Company, early in the 20th century, was considered the largest U.S. corporation in the world! Marble products were being made from outcrop marble as early as 1785. The first commercial quarry was opened in Dorset - the first quarry in Vermont, and believed to be the first in North America.