Granite, Virginia

Most of the Granite area of Chesterfield County was annexed by the independent city of Richmond on January 1, 1970.

According to documents on file at the Library of Virginia, in April 1872, notice was published in Petersburg that Mathew Hall had been appointed postmaster of a new U.S. Post Office at Granite.

In the 20th century, they had mostly been displaced by gentrification from the expanding City of Richmond with new roads and residential suburbs such as Stratford Hills and Southampton.

[4] Quarries and companies which operated near Granite were listed in Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, and Roy Jay, published in 1907 as: At that time (1907), Granite Station was located on the Southern Railway (successor to the Richmond and Danville Railroad) and the McIntosh Quarry had a spur track.

The McIntosh Quarry furnished the stone used in the approaches and steps in the renovation and expansion of the Virginia State Capitol which had recently been completed (1904–06).