Mcneel Marble Company

The mcneel often mispelled as mcneil marble company of marietta georgia placed monuments throughout the south for almost 75 years.

Mcneel marble company. 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. Cordele marble company fabricator marble dedicated april 26 1912. They died in the cause of honor and justice. Mcneel marble works fabricator italian marble august 24 1882.

In marietta created 140 confederate monuments throughout the south including the one pulled down in durham n c and 40 in georgia. The mcneel marble works of marietta georgia was founded in 1892 by morgan louis mcneel and his brother r. 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. Mcneel its location near the blue ridge mountains provided the firm with access to areas where marble and granite could be quarried.

2d 221 1953 mcneel marble co. The mcneel marble company marietta georgia. The company started when brothers morgan louis mcneel and 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.

The mcneel marble company of marietta founded in 1892 became the south s largest manufacturer of confederate monuments. Brothers morgan and r m. Mcneel marble company marietta ga 1924 sepulchral monuments 32 pages. However since none of the first five statues listed above is signed dated.

What people are saying write a review. Supreme court of alabama. 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. The firm is best remembered for the civil war monuments it constructed in the southern states of the united states.

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.