Smith Granite Company
Smith Granite Company In 1845 Orlando Smith discovered a granite outcrop on the property owned by Joshua Babcock in Westerly, Rhode Island, and a year later purchased the site from him. He established a granite quarry shortly thereafter and by the 1850s was cutting granite monuments. In 1887 the Smith Granite Company was incorporated, with family members holding all the stock.[1]
The company's sculptors included J. G. Hamilton, Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch, Robert D. Barr, and Stanley Edwards.
Works
The firm is best remembered for creating Civil War monuments.
- Gettysburg Battlefield, at least 57 monuments.[2]
- Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, at least 16 monuments.[3]
- as well as numerous other Civil War monuments including ones in:
- Norfolk, Connecticut, 1870
- Galena, Illinois, 1883
- Danbury, Connecticut, 1894
- Gardner, Massachusetts, 1885
- New Haven, Connecticut, 1887
- Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1891
- Big Rapids, Michigan, 1892
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1895
- New London, Connecticut, 1896
- Norwalk, Connecticut, 1900
- Wallingford, Connecticut, 1902
- Norwich, Connecticut, 1902
- New Haven, Connecticut, 1905
- Griswold, Connecticut, 1913
- Firemen's Monument, New London, Connecticut, 1898
- World War I monument, Templeton, Massachusetts, 1922
- the bases or granite components of many public monuments including:
References
- ^ http://www.babcock-smithhouse.com/BabcockSmithHouse/MuseumHistory/index.htm
- ^ http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=13Y402123SJ35.7180&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&term=Gettysburg&index=.GW&x=0&y=0&aspect=Keyword&term=Smith+Granite&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=&index=.NW
- ^ http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=13Y402123SJ35.7180&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&term=Chickamauga+&index=.GW&x=12&y=7&aspect=Keyword&term=Smith+Granite&index=.AW&term=&index=.TW&term=&index=.SW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.OW&term=&index=.NW