This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pender Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/678.1 Message Board Post: A large granite quarry opened right in Montello in 1880 or 1881. My great-grandfather, Thomas Pender, worked there as a dynamiter, and several other relatives of mine also worked there. Many quarry workers moved to Montello to work in that quarry.