Extracting Wealth


Monson Slate Quarry Hoist, ca. 1910

Monson Slate Quarry Hoist, ca. 1910
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Monson Historical Society

The Monson Slate Company brochure also noted that, "It requires a practiced eye to detect at a glance the slate and the flint; and of all men engaged in the business, the Welshman, who has worked in slate quarries of his own native Wales, can most readily read, as it were, the language of rocks."

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