A galamander, a granite lifter used in local quarries for nearly a hundred years, stands as the only known surviving complete example of a machine associated with the New England granite industry that flourished from 1820-1940. It may have come from quarries anywhere from Vermont and New Hampshire to Maine, but its origin and use were definitely New England. Designed to pass over a heavy stone, it used an integral pole and winch to lift granite about a foot off the ground and carry several tons with relative ease over rough roads, often with oxen as well as horses. Cut stones were taken to wharves, loaded onto sailing schooners, and shipped throughout the nation. This galamander was found in the 1960s in a wonderful state of preservation in the Robertson Quarry in North Sullivan, painted the typical azo blue known as Littlefield Blue, with hand-forged axles and bracing, and it was placed on the National Historic Register in 1992.