Quincy's Granite Industry Begins
· Mined by stoneworkers from Italy, Scandinavia, and the Sudan, Quincy granite was exported around the country and the world. The introduction of reinforced concrete in the midtwentieth century brought an end to Quincy's reign as the "Granite City." In 1826 railway pioneer Gridley Bryant designed and built a threemile track to move the granite from the quarry to the .