Strafford, Vermont

Everything Strafford is known for

3 songs mention this city 1 artist from here

Music in Strafford

Songs About Strafford

She Calls Me Back
Noah Kahan
60%
"This town’s the same as you left it"
The View Between Villages (Extended)
Noah Kahan
20%
"Past Alger Brook Road, I'm over the bridge"
Orange Juice
Noah Kahan
8%
"that this town had changed"

Artists From Strafford

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Noah Kahan
indie Pop: 85

History of Strafford

Granite Is Why Dry Land Exists RoadyGoat

The continents you walk on are essentially giant slabs of granite, and that's no small thing. Granite is lighter than the dark, dense basalt that forms the floor of the oceans. Earth's crust floats on the hot, slowly flowing mantle beneath it, and lighter material rides higher, exactly like an iceberg standing tall above the water. Because the granite continents are less dense, they bob up higher than the heavy basalt ocean basins. That buoyancy is literally why there is dry land standing above sea level at all. Geologists call this balancing act isostasy. So the same rock the Rock of Ages quarry pulls out of the ground in Graniteville is also the reason your feet aren't underwater right now.

18.9 mi away

Your Countertop Has a Tiny Nuclear Clock RoadyGoat

Here's the truth behind the great granite-countertop scare. Granite naturally contains trace amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements baked in when the magma formed. Those atoms slowly decay, and one step in that decay chain produces radon, a colorless, odorless gas. That's the real science behind the question people ask about granite countertops. The reassuring part: experts including the EPA find that the radon coming off typical granite countertops is usually very low and easily diluted by normal ventilation. By far the bigger radon source in most homes is the soil underneath the house, not the stone on the counter. So yes, granite carries a faint nuclear clock inside it, but the countertop is rarely the part worth worrying about.

18.9 mi away

The Town That Named Itself After Its Rock RoadyGoat

1885

Graniteville is a village inside the town of Barre, Vermont, and it wears its trade on its sleeve. Barre calls itself the Granite Capital of the World, and Graniteville is where the stone actually comes out of the ground. It is home to the Rock of Ages quarry, one of the largest deep-hole dimension-granite quarries on Earth. The famous E.L. Smith pit drops roughly five hundred seventy feet into solid Barre Gray granite, which has been cut here since eighteen eighty-five. So much of America's monument and gravestone stone is carved from this district that the village just took the rock's name and made it official. When a town names itself Graniteville, it is not being subtle about what built it.

19.0 mi away

Dartmouth College - Hanover

1769

Founded in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is the ninth-oldest college in the U.S. and the subject of a landmark Supreme Court case in 1819.

12.2 mi away

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry

1885

The world's largest deep-hole granite quarry, 600 feet deep, operating continuously since 1885 near Barre, Vermont.

19.4 mi away

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

1864

The only national park focused on conservation history, connecting George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings, and Laurance Rockefeller.

17.9 mi away

Quechee Gorge

-11000

165-foot deep gorge carved by glacial meltwater roughly 13,000 years ago, spanned by a historic bridge on Route 4.

16.0 mi away

Everything Near Strafford

33 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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