An abandoned granite-quarry operation has been preserved as a public forest filled with old machinery sites, derrick remains, quarry pits and interpretive trails. Instead of clearing away the industrial past, the Becket Land Trust has left much of it in place as an outdoor museum.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: housatonicheritage.org/Places/becket-historic-quarry-forest-becket-mass/