The years and the tour.
This is the year the granite quarry was created.
When is 1905?
This is the largest producer of rock and stone in the world.
Who is Polycor?
The name for a large granite deposit underground.
What is a pluton?
These are the crane like structures originally used to move granite blocks.
What are derricks?
These are the names of the "Founding Fathers" of Rock of Ages.
Who are George Milne, James Boutwell and Harvey Varnum?
This is the year that the quarry was given the name "Rock of Ages".
When is 1914?
This is the name for Large blocks of granite.
What is "dimensional granite"?
This is the reason the water is blue in the quarry.
What is the collection of stone dust?
This is one use for the water at the bottom of the quarry.
What is "cooling hot tools and equipment"?
This is the name of the crushed stone that is made from a portion of the wasted granite that is often used for driveways, paths, etc.
What is aggregate?
This is the year that a Canadian company purchased Rock of Ages.
When is 2016?
This is the place to find white granite.
What is Bethel, Vermont?
This is a prediction of how Vermont may look different if the granite head erupted in the form of lava.
What is..... Ryan will approve answers in class because this is more open ended.
This is the average number of people working in the quarry pit.
What is 20?
These are the reasons why granite would not make a good bowling alley.
What is heavy, expensive, hard to repair, and has no flexibility?
This is the year that dimensional granite began to leave the quarry to be sold around the world.
When is 1925?
These are the three minerals that make up the granite being mined at Rock of Ages.
What is Quartz, feldspar and Mica?
This is the cubed area3 of the granite pluton being mined at Rock of Ages.
What is 80 miles cubed?
This is the percent of rock taken from the pit that is considered usable.
What is 10%?
This is the sketchy way that miners used to leave the pits in an emergency.
What are janky wooden ladders?
This is the name of the tour guide that first explained the history of the quarry.
Who is Shane?
This is the color of granite mined at Rock of Ages.
What is gray granite?
This is the name of metamorphic granite.
What is gneiss?
This is the depth of the water in the guarry pit and the height of the walls.
What is 350 feet deep and 200-250 feet high?
Not counting large granite blocks that are shipped elsewhere this is one of the primary products produced at Rock of Ages.
What are tonbstones?