Concord Granite Quarries

The concord quarry produces about 25 000 tons annually in its year round operation.
Concord granite quarries. Swenson granite works concord nh landscaping and granite hardscaping store open to the public in concord new hampshire. Chief concord nh severe drought hikers bikers and transients could all be contributing factors to the brushfires. A note to our customers about swenson store operations covid 19. Hiked our way through the backwoods of concord nh past a prison to find ourselves this nice little swimming hole.
Almost two years after being purchased by a quebec firm concord s iconic swenson granite quarry has expanded operations slightly on rattlesnake hill even as it starts reconfiguring its approach. Prints include images of businesses such as john swenson s granite works unidentified quarry workers and granite products. Cause of fires at the quarries in concord undetermined. Photographic prints of identified and unidentified granite quarries and business primarily in concord nh taken between approximately 1890 and 1958.
The concord quarries are a product of the swenson family mining rattlesnake hill a small rise that overlooks much of greater concord and abuts the state prison. Since 1883 swenson granite has. Street curbing is the quarry s mainstay and it cuts about 330 000 linear feet a year. Swenson granite is a family business providing granite posts steps treads patio pavers and other products in local stores across new england.
Belknap county new hampshire state atlas 1892 concord town concord west new hampshire state atlas 1892 hillsborough county new hampshire state atlas 1892 hopkinton new hampshire state atlas 1892. Maps that contain this point of interest. Quarried at the present rate there is an almost inexhaustible supply of granite. Swenson granite works dates to 1883 when swedish born john swenson consolidated a number of small granite operations on rattlesnake hill in north concord.
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