The Boston Landmarks Commission has voted to make a Mattapan quarry a pending landmark in the city of Boston. The quarry is the source of an ancient volcanic stone prized for its banded maroon color and ideal qualities for making stone tools.
Boston and its neighborhoods are historic for certain, but rarely does the city have an opportunity to place landmark status on a site dating back before the Egyptian pyramids or England’s Stonehenge. That is exactly what is being considered right now at the Boston Landmarks Commission for the Massachusetts Tribe’s Mattapan Rhyolite Quarry – a curious site in a busy urban