Granite

Massachusetts State Building Stone

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Granite monument

Myles Standish Monument in Duxbury, Massachusetts; 116-foot granite shaft crowned by a 14-foot statue of Captain Myles Standish (military leader of Plymouth Colony). Photo by Brenda Anderson on Flickr (noncommercial use permitted with attribution / share alike).

Official State Building & Monument Stone of Massachusetts

Massachusetts designated granite as the official state building and monument stone in 1983. Granite from Quincy, Massachusetts was used to build the Washington Monument. All State Rocks  & Minerals

Massachusetts also recognizes an official state rock (Roxbury Puddingstone), a glacial rock (rolling rock), an explorer rock (Dighton rock), a historical rock (Plymouth rock), a state mineral (babingtonite), and a state gem (rhodonite),

Massachusetts

Images

Washington monument (made of granite from Quincy, Massachusetts); photo by S.L. on Flickr (noncommercial use permitted with attribution / share alike). 

Washington monument

Granite bread oven in Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts; photo by Joel Abroad on Flickr (noncommercial use permitted with attribution / share alike).

Granite bread oven

Videos

How Its Made Granite from "How It's Made" TV show.