Mcneel Marble Company

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Mcneel marble company.

Mcnell of marietta organized the company in 1891 by 1912 they advertised as the largest monumental plant in the south confederate veteran december 1912 592. However since none of the first five statues listed above is signed dated. Its location near the foothills of the blue ridge mountains gave the plant convenient access to quarrying areas of fine marble and granite and by 1912. 2d 221 1953 mcneel marble co.

The south s largest monument plant one of the oldest and largest in america. Robinette 65 so. Mcneel marble works fabricator italian marble august 24 1882. It is known that mcneel marble company of marietta georgia the manufacturer of at least one of these statues clarksville also produced the genuine stone viquesney doughboy at madison georgia thus perhaps connecting the artist in some way to these other statues.

The company started when brothers morgan louis mcneel and r m. The firm is best remembered for the civil war monuments it constructed in the southern states of the united states. The same advertisement exhorted patriotic southerners. In marietta created 140 confederate monuments throughout the south including the one pulled down in durham n c and 40 in georgia.

The mcneel often mispelled as mcneil marble company of marietta georgia placed monuments throughout the south for almost 75 years. Brothers morgan and r m. The mcneel marble works of marietta georgia was founded in 1892 by morgan louis mcneel and his brother r. The mcneel marble company was a large builder of memorials monuments located in marietta georgia and was founded in the spring of 1892 by morgan louis morgan and his brother r m.

What people are saying write a review. The mcneel marble company marietta georgia. Mcneel marble company marietta ga 1924 sepulchral monuments 32 pages. The mcneel marble company of marietta founded in 1892 became the south s largest manufacturer of confederate monuments.

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