HURRICANE ISLAND QUARRY SETTLEMENT
Former Quarry Settlement — Vinalhaven, Maine
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/hurricane-island-quarry-settlement-maine/

Former granite-quarry community now containing an educational campus and restricted private areas.

Hurricane Island Quarry Settlement is a former quarry settlement in Maine. Former granite-quarry community now containing an educational campus and restricted private areas. The center dates the granite company to 1870 and the sudden cessation of quarrying to 1914, followed by residents leaving and buildings being relocated. Outward Bound used the island from 1964–2006; a science and leadership center formed in 2009.

Hurricane Island is the quarry's ghost — the 1,200-worker company town that emptied in days, the '14 sinking of the granite shipment that broke it. The stone is the everywhere — the Washington Monument, the Brooklyn Bridge, the post offices that are the island's bones. The evacuation was the speed — the hours' notice that the workers got, the buildings disassembled and moved.
The immigrants were the workforce — the Swedes and Finns and Italians who cut the stone, the island that was a world. The Outward Bound is the reuse — the '64 sea school that Willauer founded, the quarry island that's the classroom. Hurricane Island is the abandoned-and-reborn — the town that shipped its stone and left, the school that uses the ruins.
The file keeps Hurricane Island: the 1870 quarry, the 1914 end, the stone buildings, and the Outward Bound.
Hurricane Island is the archive's Maine file — the island that built the monuments.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Hurricane Island is the archive's Maine file — the quarry that emptied.
An island keeps its shipment — the file's suggestion being that Hurricane's hold is the abrupt end: the sunken delivery that killed it, the hours' notice, and the stone that's in the nation's buildings.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· The center dates the granite company to 1870 and the sudden cessation of quarrying to 1914, followed by residents leaving and buildings being relocated. Outward Bound used the island from 1964–2006; a science and leadership center formed in 2009. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'History of Hurricane Island'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· The quarry community operated through the 19th century; the island now hosts an education center. Hurricane Island Quarry Settlement's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Hurricane Island'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 4 cited
· History of Hurricane Island — Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership
  https://www.hurricaneisland.net/history
· Visit Hurricane — Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership
  https://www.hurricaneisland.net/visit-hurricane
· Ghost towns of Maine — Strange Maine / Michelle Souliere
  https://strangemaine.blogspot.com/2012/02/ghost-towns-of-maine.html
· Hurricane Island — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Island,_Maine

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