Just over 15 years ago, Adirondack Natural Stone was formed in Whitehall, NY, as a producer of the region’s abundant granite resources. Today, the company has 40 employees, and it ships a range of finished products to the Adirondack region, the Northeastern U.S. and beyond.

Adirondack Natural Stone was founded in 1996 by André Hagadorn, who still works in the quarries today. “I had been in the welding business, and I did some work in the stone industry,” he explained. “We opened our first quarry in 1996 for Adirondack and Blue Mountain granite, and we were mostly processing by hand. It seemed to take off, and we added equipment and hydraulic splitters.”