At the turn of the 20th century, a young Thomas Arthur McGahey earned 50 cents a day smoothing the surfaces of marble headstones at Columbus Marble Works, a modest operation tucked near the railroad tracks in south Columbus. Leon Smith prepares a slab of marble for sandblasting, a mechanized form of engraving designs or words into the stone, at the 130,000-square-foot Columbus Marble Works plant on Highway 45. The business has adapted over the 1…
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