Woodbury Granite Company
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The Woodbury Granite Company was a producer of rough and finished granite products. Incorporated in 1887, purchased and significantly reorganized in 1896, and expanded by merger in 1902 and thereafter
John S. Holden was president of the company, but was not involved in its day-to-day operations.
George H. Bickford was secretary and treasurer, and later general manager, of the company.
The company began with small carving jobs, as shown by this advertisement in the Monumental News of April 1903.
The company made the most of its success in building state capitols.
Charles Webster Leonard
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Charles W. Leonard was an American innovator in textile manufacturing, granite quarry excavation, as well as harness racing and rail transport.
Woodbury Granite Company
…successive votes, the town declined, amid a consensus that the quarry owners, not the town, would benefit. In July of the same year, John S. Holden and Charles W. Leonard purchased the Woodbury Granite Company; this event would greatly affect Hardwick and Woodbury. The company had not been enjoying great success simply…
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Holden-Leonard Mill Complex, Bennington, Vermont