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2 unusual facts about Georgia Marble Company


Big Canoe, Georgia

Fortunately, the construction of the Marietta and North Georgia Railway allowed the stone to reach new markets, and the Tate family founded the Georgia Marble Company in 1884 in response to growing business and newly interested investors.

Georgia Marble Company

The Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the New York Stock Exchange annex, the statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the National Air and Space Museum, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, and the Buckingham Fountain in Chicago.


Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

The interior of the building is even more ornate than the exterior, featuring shopping arcades, Italian-made ceilings and column capitals, drinking fountain by Ernest A. Batchelder, marble floors by Georgia Marble Company of Georgia Pink and Vermont Verde Antique marble a wrought iron ballistrude and a central mezzanine, etc.


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