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 James G. C. Hamilton, Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch, Robert D. Barr, and Stanley Edwards.
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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: