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Barre granite city gulch dumps

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: quarry tools.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1894 historic-map era

The granite boom after 1880 packed Italian and Scottish quarry workers into a valley city; refuse went into Stevens Branch and the ravines below quarry hill.

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