Redgranite in Waushara County has one of the most colorful histories and was the site of what was called a boom town.The area was called Sand Prairie in the late 1800's and had been settled as farm land. Around Theodore Chipman's trading post were many boulders of hard reddish rock, extending from the yellow sandA history of Redgranite relates that after a 1913 strike, and gradually until about 1920, concrete and asphalt took over the paving business and paving blocks became a thing of the past. Only stone for buildings, monuments, crushed stone, and riprap for Great Lakes breakwaters were quarried. When the Great Depression hit, there was very little work and Redgranite was hit hard