Mcneel Marble Company

The mcneel marble company of marietta founded in 1892 became the south s largest manufacturer of confederate monuments.

Mcneel marble company.

2d 221 1953 mcneel marble co. Mcneel its location near the blue ridge mountains provided the firm with access to areas where marble and granite could be quarried. Brothers morgan and r m. The mcneel marble works of marietta georgia was founded in 1892 by morgan louis mcneel and his brother r.

In marietta created 140 confederate monuments throughout the south including the one pulled down in durham n c and 40 in georgia. Supreme court of alabama. However since none of the first five statues listed above is signed dated. The company started when brothers morgan louis mcneel and r m.

The south s largest monument plant one of the oldest and largest in america. The mcneel marble company marietta georgia. They died in the cause of honor and justice. In memory of the one hundred and eighty six honored men who lie buried here from this and other southern states they gave their lives in defense of truth and right.

What people are saying write a review. The same advertisement exhorted patriotic southerners. Mcneel marble works fabricator italian marble august 24 1882. The mcneel often mispelled as mcneil marble company of marietta georgia placed monuments throughout the south for almost 75 years.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Mcneel marble company marietta ga 1924 sepulchral monuments 32 pages.