In the early 1800s, small high-quality marble deposits were discovered in Rutland, and in the 1830s a large deposit of nearly solid marble of high quality was found in what is now West Rutland, VermontWest Rutland. By the 1840s small firms had begun operations, but marble quarryquarries only became profitable when the railroad came to Rutland in 1851. As fate would have it, the famous quarries of Carrara, ItalyCarrara in Tuscany, Italy, became largely unworkable because of their extreme depth at the same time, and Rutland quickly became one of the leading producers of marble in the world. This fueled enough growth and investment that in 1886 the marble companies saw to it that the present Rutland City was incorporated as a village, most of the town was split off as West Rutland and Proctor, which between them contained the bulk of the marble quarries, was formed around the nucleus of the old Sheffield Village from parts of Rutland and Pittsford, VermontPittsford. Proctor was named for and almost completely owned by Senator Redfield Proctor. The closing of the marble quarries in the town in the 1980s and 1990s cost the area many jobs, and Proctor has struggled much more than its neighbors. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor%2C_Vermont