The quarry was the source of the distinctive pink-grey granite employed in various prominent government and institutional buildings of the late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras throughout Gloucester County.
[1] She and her husband, who worked in the quarry himself,[2] passed it down through the family tree to her sons, Daniel P and Joseph E, who took it over as a business partnership early in the 20th century.
[3] The stone first came to public prominence in 1886 through the agency of Fathers James Rogers and Thomas F. Barry, who specified its use in the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart church, now cathedral.
The RCAF bases at Chatham, New Brunswick and Mont Joli, Quebec, were built by them during World War II.
In the William C Connolly era, the corporation employed as many as 200 local men – all of whom had been trained in house – at peak construction times.