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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: February 17, 2008
Caption: The first John Herndon Mercer Bench near gravesite in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery, 2002
Additional Description: DePue Monument Company engraved two marble benches, which were fabricated from Italian Carrara marble. Carrara is a small Tuscan city approximately 100 miles northwest of Florence, known for the white and blue-gray marble quarried there. Carrara marble has been used since the days of ancient Rome, and was involved in the construction of the Pantheon and Trajan’s Column. Michelangelo’s David was also carved out of Carrara marble. First bench (for Bonaventure Cemetery) in May 2002 and the second (for Johnson Square) in June 2002 engravings and the Johnson Square bench was officially completed in February 2003
Submitted: November 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p44087
File Size: 0.146 Megabytes

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