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This is the latest in a series of monthly columns on central Vermont's granite industry provided by the Vermont Granite Industry of Barre. New England farmers often split granite from surface boulders ...

Boulders and large rocks first had to be split into smaller manageable sizes. The farmer used primitive splitting techniques heating and rapid cooling, or hammering, cutting a groove and hammering on ...