"At the Westerly quarries, Rhode Island, a single stone 150 feet long, ten feet wide and eight feet thick, weighing more than 1,000 tons, has been loosened from the ledge. This is a bigger stone that the monarchs of Egypt ever produced. The Yankees are ahead."
Date: July 21, 1881
Location: Indiana
Paper: Indianapolis Sentinel
For more stories about Westerly and the ancestors who lived there, visit Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
