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Pondering puddingstone
By adamg on Sun, 01/04/2015 - 10:37am
Michelle Geffken fills us in on our homegrown rock:
It's also known as the Church Stone, since at least thirty-five 19th century Boston area churches were built from Roxbury Puddingstone.
Also see The Dorchester Giant - Oliver Wendell Holmes's fable on how the rock came to be.
H/t George.
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A few more words on Puddingstone
http://www.dotnews.com/2014/roxbury-puddingstone-dorchester
http://roxxbost.wordpress.com/puddingstone-pics/
http://www.cityofboston.gov/parks/urbanwilds/WestAustinStRock.asp
West African Puddingstone?
I've heard, but have found only a few sites mentioning, that the same kind of rock is found in West Africa when the continents were kissing cousins. Wikipedia does not mention this and I could not find any scholarly site that confirms the same. So maybe just an urban myth?
See this...
http://written-in-stone-seen-through-my-lens.blogspot.com/2011/03/archit...
Gettyburg and Puddingstone
Twenty years ago I was walking Gettysburg with a much younger son, and from a quarter mile I pointed to a monument and said: "That's a Massachusetts regiment there." It was, and it's the only puddingstone monument on the battlefield:
http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/MA/20MA.php
it's not uncommon
Most buildings in the area built pre WW1 have a puddingstone foundation.
Thanks for the link to the
Thanks for the link to the poem. I'm working on a pocket park project that may use the Fireside Poets (Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, Bryant, and Whittier) as a theme. Puddingstone... hmmmmm......
Mark Jaquith,
Cambridge