Name: Granite Saw Tours May 17th
Start: 2025-05-17T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-17T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Chester Granite Saw

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Granite Saw Tours May 17th

May 17, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Guided Tours on May 17th during Chester On Track 9am to 5pm!
Our tour guides will be at 7 Prospect Street across from the Historic Chester Railway Station.
There is also a foot path entrance located across from Emery Ballfield on Emery Street.
This property is in phase TWO of its cleanup and presentation to the public! ON MAY 17th during Chester On Track we will be giving guided tours from 9am to 5pm at the one and only Chester Granite Saw and Finishing Works!

The Chester Granite Saw is a stone cutting and finishing plant established in 1870 in Historic Chester Factory Village. It was purchased by the current President of the Western Mass Hilltown Hikers September 2023 and donated to that non-profit to conserve and historically preserve the entire mill operation. It is open to the public dawn to dusk every day with a walking path that passes by the old buildings, machinery and the ten foot diameter shot saw structure which is still standing today. The Hilltown Hikers and it’s volunteers are cleaning up this property after eighty years of abandonment by cutting back invasive species, dead ash trees, fallen trees and 8 to 12 inches of sediment that has covered its floors. This project is one of a kind in Western Mass as the first stone finishing plant in the area where granite and marble was brought to Chester to be cut and finished for monuments, historical buildings and more throughout the country by rail on it’s own Boston and Albany siding which visitors can see today. Be a part of this historic project to be enjoyed by generations to come by donating or volunteering on www.hilltownhikers.com