Years ago, a Houston artist made plans to create President Park, a ten-acre outdoor park in Williamsburg. It’s like something from the Twilight Zone: abandoned statue heads of the U.S presidents in a rural field near Croaker, Virginia. The United States of America has had 44 men serve as president. Also featured are George Bush Senior, the assassinated 35 th President, John F. Kennedy and 37 th President Richard Nixon. The formidable concrete statues include the first president of the United States, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who appears to be missing the back of his head. Washingtonian travel writer Kelly Paras set out to find just what this graveyard of former leaders is doing here.
All of them, in addition to 40 other U.S. Presidents, sit in a desolate field in Croaker, Virginia, which serves as a graveyard of sorts for abandoned presidential statues. In the most unsuspecting of places, a field in rural Virginia, 43 American presidents stand in silence. When the theme park closed due to poor attendance he was commissioned to destroy them, but not having the heart to do …
Standing nearly 20-feet-high, 43 U.S. Presidential busts are an unusual sight in a field in Croaker, Virginia.From George Washington to George W. Bush, these remnants of the now-closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg are stored on the property of Howard Hankins. How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain It sounds too bizarre to believe, but we’ve got the pictures here to prove it.