Item 19445info Maine Granite Industry Historical Society
Hall Quarry is mainly a town that was built from the granite industry. A lot of people were coming and leaving: in other words Hall Quarry had a seasonal population There were twelve to fifteen boarding houses in Hall
Quarry where before the company there was forest.
Workers lived in the boarding houses split up according to nationalities. There was only one smoking room in each boarding house where the workers would sit around the only wood or coal stove in the house. They would tell their stories playing cribbage or relaxing reading the news paper.
Very few houses had only two people living there and these people were the higher ups. They formed roads called Peanut Butter Row and Stove Pipe Alley. Susan O'Neill documents that they have long lost the meaning of their names.
