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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
16676Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn't There
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Baseball Gear, Baseball
  • Other, Depressions
  • Other, Games
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Prohibition
  • Other, Smuggling
  • O'Neill, Susan
  • 1978
Description:
28-page typewritten manuscript about history of Hall Quarry.
16674"An Almost Lost Art in Today's Industrial World"
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Granite quarrying
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Standard Granite Company
  • Other, Tools & implements
  • Troy, Bill
  • 1985
Description:
14-page typewrittten manuscript about history of Hall Quarry; includes bibliography.
12009Ed Pete Richardson
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
Description:
Manuscript written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s, about Ed Pete Richardson of Hall Quarry. Mentions entertainment in A.J. Whiting's Hall, including "Nick o' the Woods" ; picking up mail in Somesville and delivering it to C.J. Hall's store to be picked up; sharpening tools for the granite cutters; blueberry picking and sales, bears in Hall Quarry, the arrival of "Hell Wagons" (automobiles) on the island. [show more]
12008Peddlers of Long Ago
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Peddlers
  • 1983
Description:
Article by Doris Grant in New England Sampler: Peddlers of Long Ago, peddlers who came to Hall Quarry and other MDI villages. Mentions Charles and Ralph Sawyer, who began as peddlers, then opened a store in Southwest Harbor.
12007The Paving Cutter and His Trade
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Macaroni Hill
  • Other, Peanut Row
  • September 1978
Description:
Article in Maine Life by Doris Grant of Hall Quarry: The Paving Cutter and His Trade. (Part of photograph and article has been cut out.) Glossary of paving cutter's tools.
12006The Chapel at Hall Quarry
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Granite
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Hall Quarry School
  • Other, Leavitt
  • Other, The Chapel, Hall Quarry
Description:
Memories of the chapel at Hall Quarry, written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s: 2 handwritten versions (They have not been compared to see if they are identical. Mentions its use as a school and community center as well as a religious building. References to Horace Leavitt, minister; Mandy Perkins, Sunday school superintendent, and Bill Grant, organist. Marked as copies a (5 pages) and b(4 pages).
3883Bibliography of Hall Quarry
  • Document, List, Bibliography
  • Other, Hall Quarry
Description:
Single page bibliography: Books, Thesis [sic[, Magazines/Papers, Tapes. No date, no indication of compiler.
2063Granite Cutters’ National Union
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Unions
  • 1904
Description:
Granite Cutters’ National Union initiation receipt for fifteen dollars for H. L. Stanley signed by W. B. Rour