title: Smith Granite Company
text: # 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.
  
  The company's sculptors included James G. C. 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.
  * Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, at least 16 monuments.
  * 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:
  
         General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument, Washington D.C.
  