Editing Stonington, Maine (section)

==== Granite ====
A barren settlement, Green's Landing changed little in its first 70 or so years; {{circa|1870}}, granite quarrying became a major occupation and little Green's Landing became a boom town. Europeans, mainly from Italy, immigrated to Green's Landing to implement their old-world skills as stonecutters and masons at the numerous ''in-town'' granite quarries. As the demand for stone increased, quarrying moved off-shore to the southerly surrounding islands. Crotch Island ([https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2B44%C2%B0+8 +44° 8' 25.20", −68° 40' 17.26]"), the best known ''island'' quarry, was one of 33 major island quarries along the Maine coast, providing work for an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people. Stone excavated in the area has been used to build important structures across the country, including the approaches to the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] (1880s), [[Croton Aqueduct]] (NY, 1880), [[Holyoke, Massachusetts|Holyoke Dam]] ([[Holyoke, Massachusetts]], 1890s), piers for Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridge (Manhattan, 1905), [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Museum of Fine Arts]] ([[Boston]], 1907), [[Rockefeller family|Rockefeller]] fountain bowl (Pocantico, New York, 1913), [[John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame]], ([[Arlington County, Virginia]], 1966)<ref>{{cite web|title=DEER ISLE GRANITE INSTALLATIONS|date=July 22, 2013 |url=http://deerislegranitemuseum.wordpress.com/deer-isle-granite-installations/|access-date=December 15, 2013}}</ref>  and the new [[Yankee Stadium]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Osgood|first=Kris|title=Maine granite graces YankeeStadium|url=http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Maine-granite-graces-Yankee-Stadium/13090/|access-date=June 28, 2013|newspaper=The Working Waterfront|date=April 22, 2009}}</ref> among many others. Some other major quarries in operation at the time were The Settlement Quarry (on Deer Isle), Green Island Quarry, and St. Helena Quarry (both separate island quarries). [[File:1907 Photo Postcard of Stonington, Maine. Downtown Main street looking west..jpg|thumb|1907 Photo Postcard of Stonington, Maine. Downtown Main street looking west.]]