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Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
The settlement of Hall Quarry in located in the town of Mount Desert on Mount Desert Island and was home to a granite quarry. The quarry's location alongside of Somes Sound proved very beneficial, as it allowed the schooners to land very close to the quarry to load the granite and transport it to various ports.
Hall Quarry
McMullen Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Hall Quarry
McMullen Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
This quarry was "in the town of Mount Desert, southeast of the village of 'Hall Quarry' and four-fifths mile north of the Robinson Mountains." The operator was the Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co., 208 Broadway, New York. The granite was reportedly a light-buff grayish color with a coarse to medium texture. Accessory minerals: Apatite and a little secondary calcite within the oligoclase. Granite quarrying began as early as 1870 on Mount Desert Island at Hall's Quarry. Four major companies operated at Hall's Quarry from 1870 to 1965, the first being the Standard Granite Company, followed by McMullen Granite Co., Booth Brothers and Hurricane Island Granite Company and Grenci and Ellis Granite Co. All shipped stone for major building contracts all over the United States. In 1905 the quarry measured 250 feet north to south by 250 feet from east to west. The quarry had a depth of 50 feet at the west side. Transport of the granite was by track 800 feet to the wharf, which was accessible to schooners of 20 feet draft. Granite from this quarry was used in the following examples: the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the basement of the New York Customhouse; the Brooklyn anchorage to the Manhattan Bridge; and the bridge over the Potomac at Washington. The Commercial Granites of New England, Bulletin 738 By T. Nelson Dale - Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1923. - p. 222-223 [show more]
Aerial View Hall Quarry with Houses and Ship at Dock
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hall Quarry in Snow
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hall Quarry in Snow
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Copy. Original returned to owner.
Hall Quarry with 11 Men in Summer Sunday Dress Posed on Quarry Stones
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Copy. Original returned to owner.
Hall Quarry Close-Up of Crane
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hall Quarry Close-Up of Crane
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
Negative returned to owner.
Arthur McMullan & Co. Hall Quarry, ME. 1904
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1904
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Description:
Three-segment photograph of Hall Quarry from Somes Sound. Shows quarry buildings and several schooners alongside.
Paving Cutters at Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • 1924
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Paving Cutters at Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Photograph of paving cutters clad in dress shirts, ties, and hats standing on piles of paving blocks at Hall Quarry.
Hall Quarry Granite Company
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry Granite Company
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Active granite company operation during C. T. Hall's time. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Other
  • early 1900's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Aerial view of an active granite mine at Hall Quarry during Arthur McMullen's operation of the quarry, around early 1900's
Derricks at Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1980's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Derricks at Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Series of seven photographs of mining equipment (derricks) at Hall Quarry which were taken down and sold in the early 1970's.
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1900-1920
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
B/W photograph and copies at Hall Quarry of stone being cut for Riverside Drive in NY.
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • 1900-1920
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Overview of an active Hall Quarry showing the loading dock, the quarry, and the village.
Hall Quarry miners
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • William Hocker
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry miners
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
B/W Photographs of granite workers with oxen at Hall Quarry. Negatives are from GHC collection; gift to them from Mariene Sprague
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1932
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
B/W photographs (with descriptions) of Hall Quarry. Part of Stella L. Hill's Hall Quarry Paper (see item 7327 -8).
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
B/W Photograph taken from east side of the Sound looking west toward Hall Quarry, with quarry schooners at dock and anchored in the Sound. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1900-1920
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Hall Quarry of stone being cut for Riverside Drive in NY.
Mount Desert Granite Co., Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1890's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Description:
Mt. Desert Granite Company Quarry Showing work houses and drilling equipment. James Grant Photographs
Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle Granite Co. Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • 1890's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Description:
Booth Brothers Granite Company mining operation at Hall Quarry showing work houses and crane. James Grant Photographs
Booth Bros. Hurricane Isle Granite Co., Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • 1890's
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
Description:
Showing workers on the granite field at Hall Quarry with cut slabs of granite. Digital image from Jeff Dobbs Productions.
"Peanut Row" Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • 1905
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
"Peanut Row" Hall Quarry
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Hall Quarry showing the paving cutter's camps on "Peanut Row", the schoolhouse, and other buildings.
Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Three-Masted Schooner at Hall Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Men at Work at Hall Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • People
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Men at Work at Hall Quarry
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Quarries
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1890
  • Mount Desert, Hall Quarry
  • No Copyright - United States
The Quarries
Southwest Harbor Public Library