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