PLEASE NOTE: You have permission to go to the corner of the fence, but not beyond. If someone is present that allows you to go beyond, please feel free. I cannot recommend attempting to visit on Saturday evenings during racing season. Also, please do not log this from the highway because that would be kinda dumb.
Abraham Lincoln is our country's best-loved President (based on an unofficial poll that did not include the lower half of the nation or the Booth family). What better way could there be to honor the man who saved the Union than build a disproportioned, grotesque fiberglass statue of him? I sure as heck can't think of one!
To Log This Virtual Reward: Please take a photo with the statue in the background. Because pictures are awesome! Maybe you could strike a pose like Abe, or similar. That'd be fun!
You are looking for the largest statue of Abraham Lincoln ever built. Far more than a statue of our beloved President and Great Emancipator, it is a monument to man’s hubris. With his finger pointing toward the heavens, The Rail Splitter himself seems to defy God to make a larger or uglier graven image.
So far, God has remained strangely silent to the challenge.
When I was a kid, this statue was located in a park south of town. We used to go out to the park to play around it. I still remember the day they cut it in half, loaded it on a couple flatbed trucks and hauled it to this location. More information can be found at Roadside America.
Fun Fact: This is the only statue of Abraham Lincoln that is visible from the International Space Station
Again: The statue is off-limits. If the owner or caretaker is around, you might be able to talk them into letting you walk back to it. If that happens, please feel free to share better photos.
Virtual Reward - 2017/2018
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on the Geocaching Blog.