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74 The Granite Industry of Southwestern New Brunswick: A Historical Perspective 60 ~1 km Village of Hampstead Middle Devonian Granitic rocks Saint Evandale Granodiorite Fanning Brook John Spoon Island Silurian Volcanic and sedimentary rocks Outline of quarry areas 58 62 Blacksmith shop Spoon Island North Quarries 55 1,000 Acres Mill Brook House 102 Boundary between north and south quarries Spoon Island South Quarries 56 House 59 61 57 Dressing shed House Quarry Siding Station 0 500 ft River 0 200 m Loading wharf Buildings in 1930s Quarry Names 55 Gypsy Mountain 56 Hall 57 Station 58 Milldam 59 Blue 60 Black Granite 61 Front 62 Back Map 5. Location of granite quarries in the Hampstead area along the Saint John River. The map depicts the quarry buildings as they appeared in the 1930s. Map 1 (p. 2) shows the outline of this area in southwestern New Brunswick.
Part Two — The Hampstead District 75 Opposite: Polished granite pillars, Palatine Building (built 1877–78), Saint John, showing contrast between the red St. George granite and grey Hampstead granite. GM Upper right: The Kings County Gaol was built of grey granite from Spoon Island North in 1840 at Kingston, New Brunswick, before being relocated to nearby Hampton. The structure was declared a Provincial Historic Site in 1977. It presently houses the Kings County Historical and Archival Museum. GM Lower right: Valley Marble Works, c. 1875, one of several Saint John monument shops that relied on Hampstead granite during the 1800s and early 1900s. LAC, PA-103147 of which was dismantled and hauled overland to Hampton, block by block, in the winter of 1870–71. More stone was used in piers and bridges, including the Saint John Suspension Bridge (1851). The stone [for the bridge towers] was all trimmed at the Quarry where it was taken out, marked and numbered, and there is nothing to do but put one block upon another fitting it in its proper place. The stone is hoisted up from the scows, on an inclined railroad by means of a horse attached to a windlass. On this side the foundation for one of the towers is completed and ready to receive the blocks of granite. ~ Morning News (Saint John), November 10, 1851 One of the earliest customers for Wetmore’s grey granite was the Saint John monument maker, Peter Cormack, who later played such a significant role in the St. George granite industry (see p. 9). Cormack used the Hampstead stone in the 1850s to create private and public monuments as well as New Brunswick’s first curling stones.
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