NEWPORT – One path circles a meadow at the base of a high ridge and a vertical, rock-faced wall cut by granite quarriers in the 1800s. The 3-acre meadow is covered with hundreds of green shoots ...

Sea kayakers favor this refreshing swimming hole scooped out of pink-granite ledges by quarriers in the late 1800s on Stonington’s 47-acre Green Island, now a Maine Coast Heritage Trust preserve. From ...

At first glance, stone quarrying appears to be a messy business. Great mounds of earth are excavated and massive blocks of limestone, marble, sandstone, and nearly every other type of stone under the ...