Westerly granite, the stone that built Civil War monuments
Westerly’s fine-grained granite was prized for statues and monuments in the 1800s. The quarries employed hundreds of stonecutters.
Civil War monuments
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Westerly’s fine-grained granite was prized for statues and monuments in the 1800s. The quarries employed hundreds of stonecutters.