Sunday we welcomed several groups for our 2nd annual Housatonic Heritage guided tours of our Granite Saw historical property.  Guides;  Liz, Greg and Frank led personal tours around the historic stone finishing mill, the largest and earliest in Western Mass built in 1880 when granite was discovered in Becket.  We learned about equipment, the different varieties of granite and how the granite was brought here on the Chester and Becket Railroad (built for this mill) to be cut and finished then shipped out across the country.

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