From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2007.1.70149
Marble slab storage yard, No. 96 This appears to be the marble yard in Vermont Marble's Proctor facility. Shown here is a rail mounted crane used to lift and transport marble slabs. HISTORY The Vermont Marble Company was founded in 1880 by businessman and politician Redfield Proctor, who served as the company's first president. Marble was quarried from several locations in the town of Proctor, then called Sutherland Falls, and the surrounding communities of Rutland, West Rutland and Danby. As railroads arrived in Rutland and Proctor, the Vermont Marble company became one of the largest producers of marble in the world. The company contributed marble to the USS Arizona Memorial, West Virginia state capital, Washington Monument, United States Supreme Court building, Arlington National Cemetery, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The surrounding town was named after Redfield Proctor and became a company town.
