Times Argus

Granite column Unionizing the granite worker

Editor s note: This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre. By Paul Wood The granite industry was one of the ...
Times Argus

Granite column Hard lessons in our quarries

Editor’s note: This article, the latest in a monthly series on Vermont’s granite industry, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. Many of these articles are based on audio/videotaped ...
Post and Courier

In 21 seconds, granite column that held John C. Calhoun above Charleston tumbled to ground

Marion Square shook Wednesday morning as a demolition crew pulled down the massive granite pillar that held a statue of John C. Calhoun over Charleston for over a century. In 21 seconds, Target ...
insider.si.edu

Damaged black-granite sphinx and granite column known as 'Pompey's pillar', Alexandria, Nile Delta region, Egypt

"The Serapeum, the most important temple of Serapis, was located in the native Egyptian quarter of Rakhotis. Evidently founded in the reign of Ptolemy III, much of the temple was constructed in the ...