Mcnell Marble Company

The interest in these monuments was capitalized upon by companies like the mcneel marble company of marietta georgia.

Mcnell marble company. Signed a contract with the mcneel marble company of marietta georgia in february 1912 for the design and installation of the monument consisting of a granite rotunda and bronze sculptures at a total cost of 25 000. In marietta created 140 confederate monuments throughout the south including the one pulled down in durham n c and 40 in georgia. The same advertisement exhorted patriotic southerners. The company commissioned allen newman 1875 1940 to create the sculptures.

In the process of moving the courthouse however. The firm is best remembered for the civil war monuments it constructed in the southern states of the united states. The company started when brothers morgan louis mcneel and r m. Brothers morgan 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. When a new courthouse was constructed to the west of this building the earlier courthouse was torn down in order to constructing parking. The statue was manufactured by the mcneel marble company of marietta georgia. Mcneel its location near the blue ridge mountains provided the firm with access to areas where marble and granite could be quarried.

The monument however was not moved and remained on the courthouse grounds. The mcneel often mispelled as mcneil marble company of marietta georgia placed monuments throughout the south for almost 75 years.