In 1898 the expanding quarry operation at the Hudson and Chester Granite Company in Becket finally got approval for construction of a railroad line to the quarry site. Several miles of steep, winding right-of-way were blasted out of the side of the narrow Walker Brook valley from Chester to the John Mitchell farm in Becket. "At this point the first switchback was located, and the rails reversed to climb up the valley side to the sloping upland farmland. The track wound for a mile or so over this

The Becket Quarry formerly known as the Hudson and Chester Granite Company Quarry. The granite here was transported on the Chester and Becket Railroad to Chester to our Granite Saw Finishing plant. @followers #hikethehilltownhistory #hikethehilltowns with the #westernmasshilltownhikers #discoverthehilltowns #visitthehills #hilltownhistory #flashhike #intheberkshires #nature #adventure #history #hiking #outdooradventures #visittheberkshires #mylocalMA #visitma #hilltownhikers #westernmass #hiking

Stone Polishing and Fabrication in Granite Manufacturing

This summer, contractor Granite Construction completed built a roundabout at the busy SR 9/Bickford Avenue intersection in Snohomish in just five days! This process normally takes months as most of the time traffic is not completely blocked/detoured away from the work, meaning crews have to work around that. To accomplish this, we closed SR 9 in Snohomish and crews worked around-the-clock to not only build the roundabout but shift how traffic uses the busy intersection of SR 9 and Bickford Avenu