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CHANCE TO VENTURE INSIDE. ERIKA: WHAT DO HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HAVE IN COMMON? THE TINY TOWN OF DORSET, VERMONT. THIS IS WHERE ALL THAT STATELY MARBLE CAME FROM. OUR ...

DORSET, Vt. (NEWS10) – Vermont State Police positively identified the body recovered from First Marble Quarry Wednesday morning as 21-year-old Hadil Marzouq. The cause of death was ruled a drowning.

The William Benton Museum of Art’s current exhibition embarks on “The Human Epoch: Living in Anthropocene”. Photo courtesy of the William Benton Museum of Art webpage. Slowly but surely, the William ...

Two workmen are standing by several steam boilers close to a set of steps leading down to the quarry. A flatbed railroad car is on tracks close to the quarry, and there is a windowless shed to the ...

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Dorset, VT: The Town That Marble Made What do Harvard Medical School and the New York Public Library have in common? The tiny town of Dorset Vermont. THIS is where all that stately marble came ...

Before the formation of the Vermont Marble Co., most workers in the marble industry of the 1850s and 1860s worked for small companies and lived in company houses of every size and shape. The most ...

Men waving red flags and shouting a warning to townspeople to watch out for flying stone was a common sight in the early days of quarrying. "Through The Ages" in January 1924 depicted a typical ...

Stacks of marble at the Vermont Marble Company in 1915 (Credit Collection of the Vermont Marble Museum Preservation Trust of Vermont) A crane in the marble quarry in 1910 (Credit Collection of the ...