The Jones Brothers Granite Shed, located between Vermont Route 302 and the Stevens Branch of the Winooski River in Barre City, Vermont, is an good example of an industrial site and manufacturing plant for granite, one of Vermont's largest exports, thus qualifying it for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places under both Criteria A and C. The Jones Brothers Company was instrumental in expanding the granite industry in Barre, which was recognized internationally as "the granite capital of the world" because of its extraordinarily high reserve and export of high quality granite, the exceptional skill of artistry in stone cutting, and early inventions of quarrying and manufacturing equipment. The Jones brothers were among the first in Barre to establish both quarries and a manufacturing plant, the first granite company to advertise finished granite monuments nationwide (1927), and, until 1975 was the oldest granite manufacturing company in the country. The Jones Brothers Company incorporated the entire commercial granite process, from the quarrying of the stone to the finished product.
As a newspaper article from Barre Granite in October of 1921 stated, "Vermont is the center of the monumental stone industry of the United States. With the largest granite quarries in the world centered in Barre, imposing marble deposits in Rutland and Addison counties, and extensive slate quarries in Poultney and Fair Haven, the Green Mountain state has clear title to first place in the nation's production of stone."
