RECLAIMED SLATE The Material Reclaim slate is the name given to slate taken from an existing roof, usually during a "tear-off", that are subsequently re-used. This has been practiced by roofers since slate was used as a roofing material. I took down a barn in Columbia, Pennsylvania, about a year ago. I was surprised by the fact that it was a graduated roof, changing lengths as the roof progressed, then after closer examination to find that the slate, especially the smaller sl

American Slate - The Story Chapter 3, By Tim Underhill Logistics of the New Industry One phone call, with a credit card number, can nowadays send into motion what would have been unthinkable in the early eighteenth century. A quarrier in LaBana might call down to production, pallets and labels made up, fifty eight squares of excellent unfading black would be loaded into a container, trucked to a port, shipped to Baltimore, trans-docked and hauled to Vermont. What an amazing

American Slate - The Story Chapter 2, By Tim Underhill Nowadays, should you have the means to start a business, the resources available are endless: the internet, of course, analyses, studies, bulletins, logistic support and so on. But I have in mind a different time. An immigrant quarryman. Let's call him Evan Evans (a good Welsh name) stands in a Vermont field, circa 1835.He has just spent the last of his family's money securing a lease on the field. Looking around he studi