For the second time in about five years, North Carolina Granite Corp. has changed hands, with plans this time around calling for the “decommissioning” of the fabled Mount Airy company.

Article continues after... For Chris Collins, owner of Warner Stone, the granite slabs they use to build walkways and patios already came from Swenson’s other quarry in Barre, Vermont.

Just in New York City alone, Stony Creek Quarry granite appears as a major structural element in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Macy’s at Herald Square, Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, Bellevue ...

Pieces of granite to be turned into crushed stone are seen at Swenson Granite Works in Concord on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. The 133-year-old family-owned company has been sold to Polycor, a Quebec ...

The company that owns the Swenson Granite quarry in Concord says it plans to resume cutting slabs of stone there by next summer and in the meantime will continue processing material into smaller ...

Polycor, the Quebec firm that manages Swenson Granite, said the stoppage was made for “changes to the quarry footprint and are ultimately designed to bring the cost of quarrying dimension stone ...

Fly my flag or you'll be hanged, drawn and quartered', King George III did not tell the American colonists some 250 years ago ...