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After leaving Ailsa Craig, the granite boulders go to a stonemason in Newton Stewart, about 50 miles south of Mauchline, where they are sliced into slabs with a diamond wire saw.
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Matt Slater, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Shelburn’s neighbor, a stonemason, taught them how to mortar and lay bricks.
—Tory Basile, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
The defense counsel for Cintula, a pensioner and former mine worker, stonemason, writer and public activist, argued that not every attack on an official was terrorism.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
The craft was then taught to enslaved people, who built many of the walls throughout Middle Tennessee, and then, after emancipation, many former slaves established themselves as stack stonemasons.
—Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 17 July 2025
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Matt Slater, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Shelburn’s neighbor, a stonemason, taught them how to mortar and lay bricks.
—Tory Basile, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
The defense counsel for Cintula, a pensioner and former mine worker, stonemason, writer and public activist, argued that not every attack on an official was terrorism.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
The craft was then taught to enslaved people, who built many of the walls throughout Middle Tennessee, and then, after emancipation, many former slaves established themselves as stack stonemasons.
—Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 17 July 2025
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“Stonemason.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stonemason. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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stonemason
noun
stone·ma·son
ˈstōn-ˌmās-ᵊn 
: a mason who builds with stone
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