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

The firm is best remembered for creating Civil War monuments.