BENJAMIN SMITH JORDAN - STATUE - MEMORY HILL, MILLEDGEVILLE

Benjamin Smith Jordan was a wealthy landowner in Baldwin County.  He died in 1856.  R.E. Launitz, a New York sculptor, created this massive statue.  Launitz was the sculptor of the Pulaski Monument in Savannah.  Jordan is buried beneath this monument in Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia.