The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
43 presidential busts sit in a desolate field in Croaker, Virginia, which serves as a graveyard of sorts for abandoned presidential statues.
Happy Presidents Day!
This is one giant bust of a presidential theme park. Some 150 miles south of Washington, DC, on a patch of farmland in Croaker, Virginia, stand 43 giant heads of United States presidents. The busts…
The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.
43 presidential busts sit in a desolate field in Croaker, Virginia, which serves as a graveyard of sorts for abandoned presidential statues.
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They were supposed to be an attraction that drew history buffs and Williamsburg tourists to Presidents Park near Water Country USA.
Somewhere in Virginia on the outskirts of private farmland sits the completely bizarre sight of nearly 40 giant U.S. president busts crumbling amongst the weeds. The mammoth heads—each estimated to weigh in excess of 7,000 pounds—were originally commissioned from Houston artist David Adickes as the centerpiece for Presidents Park, a ten-acre open-air museum with presidential sculptures and informational plaques located in Williamsburg, Virginia. First opened in 2004, the museum closed just 6 years later due to lack of attendance and most of the heads were eventually moved to a private farm where they sit today. More
The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain
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Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.
Somewhere in Virginia on the outskirts of private farmland sits the completely bizarre sight of nearly 40 giant U.S. president busts crumbling amongst the weeds. The mammoth heads—each estimated to weigh in excess of 7,000 pounds—were originally commissioned from Houston artist David Adickes as the centerpiece for Presidents Park, a ten-acre open-air museum with presidential sculptures and informational plaques located in Williamsburg, Virginia. First opened in 2004, the museum closed just 6 years later due to lack of attendance and most of the heads were eventually moved to a private farm where they sit today. More
In rural Virginia, a local business man has collected 20-foot-tall busts of every past U.S. President - and put them out to pasture.
Howard Hankins rescued the giant busts of former U.S. presidents from the closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg when he was commissioned to destroy...