Keefe’s Granite Quarry in Becket State Forest found! One of the early quarries of several we have found both in Otis and Becket. Timothy Keefe purchased the mining rights to this land from the owner James Turner, in 1882. Turner, one of the most proficient granite industry miners here in the Southern Hilltowns, a direct descendant of those who originated granite quarrying of the money making vien that crosses both becket and Otis. Two pits were quarried and a staging area/workshop located on the mountain above the Walker Brook valley. The old road is barely recognizable as it connected to the original Mitchel Road and the Chester and Becket Railroad. It appears that the stone was transported out of the quarry by oxen.

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