McNeel Marble Works explained

The McNeel Marble Works of Marietta, Georgia, was founded in 1892 by Morgan Louis McNeel and his brother, R. M. McNeel. Its location near the Blue Ridge Mountains provided the firm with access to areas where marble and granite could be quarried. ^[1]

The firm is best remembered for the Civil War monuments it constructed in the southern states of the United States.^[2]

Selected works

• Chester Confederate Monument (1905)^[3]
• John Brown Gordon statue, pedestal, Atlanta, Georgia (1907)^[4]
• At Rest Arms, Thomaston, Georgia, (1908)^[5]
• Comrades"", Statesboro, Georgia, (1909)^[6]
• Jasper County Confederate Monument aka Comrades Monticello, Georgia, (1910)^[7]
• Illinois Monument, Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, (1914)
• Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy, Jacksonville, Florida, (1915), Allen George Newman, sculptor
• Statue of Sterling Price (1915), Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri, Allen Newman, sculptor
• Arkansas Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park, 1954. The memorial was designed by William Henry Deacy.

External links

• McNeel Marble Company Collection at the Kennesaw State University Archives.

Notes and References

1. Web site: McNeel Marble Company Collection, circa 1906-1940s - Kennesaw State University Archives. archivesspace.kennesaw.edu.
2. Web site: SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. siris-artinventories.si.edu.
3. Web site: Chester Confederate Monument. McNeel Marble Works. 15 November 2017. Siris-artinventories.si.edu.
4. Book: Garrett, Franklin M.. Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s. University of Georgia Press. 1969. 978-0-8203-3905-4. 508. en. Franklin Garrett. Google Books.
5. Web site: At Rest Arms, (Sculpture).
6. Web site: Comrades. McNeel Marble Works. 19 November 2017. siris-artinventories.si.edu Library Catalog.
7. Web site: Jasper County Confederate Monument. E. B.. Frazier. siris-artinventories.si.edu Library Catalog.