The search for the “Hoary Little Snowflake Granite Quarry in Becket” the first Quarry known to exist in the written history of Becket was lengthy but this week we hiked right into it.  In 2023 we unknowingly hiked past it, not seeing the large grout piles through the leaves.  Using vague descriptions of the few and far between written history and mostly by lidar mapping technology and many hikes on foot looking for clues and deciphering history,  the Quarry was found just over the town line in Middlefield not Becket! Per the 1881 deed found by Tom Hoffman;  Silas Clark deeded the land for seven years to Nellie Clark (female owned quarry) of Chester, 100 acres for the purpose of quarrying and cutting stone and erecting a blacksmith shop with Clark still having use of the land for pasturing. Nellie to pay Clark one dollar for each and every cart load of stone with the option within seven years to pay two thousand dollars for a deed. Nellie Hopkins husband, Herman was a board member of the Chester Granite and Polishing Works .

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