Extracting Wealth


Slate workers, Monson, ca. 1922

Slate workers, Monson, ca. 1922
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Monson Historical Society

Between 1872 and 1889, the company produced 250,000 squares of roofing slate that was sold all over the U.S.

The company called the vein it was mining "inexhaustible."

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