Waitsfield, Vermont

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Music in Waitsfield

Songs About Waitsfield

The View Between Villages
Noah Kahan
24%
"Past Alger Brook Road, I'm over the bridge"

Artists From Waitsfield

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Grace Potter
rock Pop: 51

History of Waitsfield

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.

17.7 mi away

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.

17.7 mi away

The Stone Built to Outlast Everyone RoadyGoat

1885

There's a reason monuments and gravestones are carved from granite and not softer rock. Granite's big, interlocking crystals of quartz and feldspar make it extraordinarily hard and resistant to weathering, so a carved surface can hold crisp letters and dates for centuries. That durability is exactly what made Barre, Vermont, the granite capital. The Rock of Ages quarry in Graniteville has supplied Barre Gray granite since eighteen eighty-five, and an enormous share of America's monuments and headstones are cut from this district. When people want a marker meant to stand long after everyone who knew the name is gone, they reach for the rock that shrugs off rain, frost, and time. In Graniteville, lasting forever is the local industry.

17.7 mi away

Ben & Jerry's Factory

1978

Vermont's most famous ice cream company started in a renovated gas station in Burlington in 1978 before moving production to this Waterbury facility.

11.7 mi away

UVM Morgan Horse Farm

1789

Historic breeding farm for the Morgan horse, America's first documented breed, descended from a single stallion owned by Justin Morgan around 1789.

13.6 mi away

Vermont State House

1857

The smallest state capital in the United States, featuring a gold-leaf dome and one of the finest Greek Revival statehouses in the country.

12.9 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.

17.5 mi away

Trapp Family Lodge

1942

Lodge founded by the real von Trapp family of Sound of Music fame, who settled in Stowe after fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.

19.3 mi away

Robert Frost Cabin - Ripton

1939

The cabin where Robert Frost spent 24 summers writing poetry, near the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College.

17.6 mi away

Things to Do in Waitsfield

food 11.4 mi away
Ben & Jerry's Factory

Tour the factory and get free samples in Waterbury VT. The Flavor Graveyard is real.

Everything Near Waitsfield

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