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The Vermont Marble Company virtually built the town of Proctor. At its peak, the company employed several thousand people in the Proctor area. Early in the century, it was considered the largest U.S. corporation in the world.
Locally, headstones were being made from outcrop marble as early as 1785. The first commercial quarry was opened in Dorset – the first quarry in Vermont, and believed to be the first in North America.
The Sutherland Falls quarry opened in 1836 and went through several owners before Colonel Proctor took over. He entered the arena as a receiver for the failed Sutherland Falls Marble Company. When he learned about the area’s combination of water power, sand supply, promising quarry, and established equipment and railroad, he decided to bring the various struggling or defunct works into one ownership and build an effective business. Vermont Marble Company officially came into being in 1880.
