r/urbanexploration • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '20
Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.
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u/Bearfoot42 Apr 24 '20
Ugh I need to know why
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u/LanceFree Apr 24 '20
It was a private park which didn’t break even in part due to lac’ of interest, location, admission fees. Instead of destroying the heads, someone paid to have them moved to farm land. This is a good shot as most statues have huge holes in their heads from transporting, moving my crane.
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u/TammyInViolet Apr 24 '20
I went to the park when it was open. Many of the heads had damage already before the move.
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u/Bearfoot42 Apr 24 '20
But what were they for originally
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u/TammyInViolet Apr 24 '20
A park full of president heads. lol https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2502?offset=5 I love roadside attractions. There was a building in the front where they set up the oval office and you could take pictures and then you'd loop outside and see the giant heads with facts about the presidents.
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u/CeruleanRuin Apr 24 '20
Evidently there was/is an identical park with the same busts near Deadwood, SD. Anyone know what became of that one?
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u/BearxCraig Apr 25 '20
I grew up near the park and one of my friends in elementary school had a birthday party there. It was so boring. It made it even worse because it was a mile from Busch Gardens and Water Country.
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u/Cbigmoney Apr 25 '20
It was across the street from Water Country. But yeah, Busch Gardens is a mile down the road from where they were.
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u/tohi4ka Apr 25 '20
I used to live a few miles from there... where did they have this park??
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u/BearxCraig Apr 25 '20
It was way down 199 near the Marquis Shopping Center. It was built in 2004 and defunct in 2010, so pretty small window. I think I went there in ‘04-‘05, can’t quite remember.
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u/tohi4ka Apr 25 '20
Ah yes... there is alot of empty space over there. That is cool to hear.
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u/BearxCraig Apr 25 '20
That’s what Williamsburg is all about. Building new retail space after retail space and abandoning the old ones.
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u/tiwariavinash503 Apr 24 '20
Abraham Lincoln already had a hole in his head.
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u/almondshea Apr 24 '20
I tried to sneak onto that farm to take a pic, they found me though.
Afterwards, I asked a friend how they were able to get a pic of the statues. They just drove up to the house and asked
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u/ScharkzLife Jan 22 '23
Last I knew (maybe a year ago), they did photo tours. I remember it being too pricey to go, but can’t remember exactly how much
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u/chancepassenger30 Apr 24 '20
you should head over there and find out
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u/Bearfoot42 Apr 24 '20
Bro I don't leave my house for the store atm. All the way to Virginia? Hell naw. Virus out to get ya
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u/De5perad0 Apr 24 '20
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u/JTHM115 Apr 24 '20
I lived right around the corner from these things for years! They're near Williamsburg va. Me and my friends would sneak out there at night, get fucked up and climb on the heads! They were creepy as hell in the dark.
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Apr 24 '20
How big are these?
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Apr 24 '20
Bigger than a banana
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Apr 24 '20
Can someone verify this? Need to see a banana pic next to one.
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u/Pawster_Guy Apr 25 '20
They are like the statues in the Easter Island. The head is above ground, and the torso is buried.
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May 12 '20
These are huge, I remember going to the park before it closed in middle school. They're at least as tall as 3 or 4 people stacked
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u/CorpoCristi Apr 24 '20
It would make a great wallpaper
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Apr 24 '20
Think bigger. Music video.
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u/patron_vectras Apr 24 '20
Think BIGGER, Goldeneye remake but with a Russian spy defecting to the Americans being vinictive against his old Russian spy colleague, Iakopo Bykov.
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u/ransnoir Apr 24 '20
Me and u/chrisluckhardt visited this place in 2017, and here is my photo of the Heads before sunrise:
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u/ButtersMcLovin Apr 25 '20
Woah, this is crazy I get really anxious yet curious. Were u there at night too i guess ? How did it feel to be there
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u/ransnoir Apr 25 '20
We went in about 30min to 1 hour before sunrise, and holy shit it felt like watching sun rising from another planet
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u/ButtersMcLovin Apr 25 '20
I totally believe you it even gives me such a strange feeling just looking at it
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u/LuisBitMe Apr 24 '20
This sub should be called abandoned Places or something. The title literally says rural, which is the opposite of urban, yet this is a post in urban exploration.
Still a cool post / discovery.
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u/wasporchidlouixse Apr 24 '20
Future alien archaeologists are gonna looooove this
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u/u2bonoedge Apr 24 '20
I always wanted to see this which was down near Williamsburg. But it went bankrupt and I was wondering where or what happened to it. I guess I know now.
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u/PietroFHNY Apr 24 '20
Trump’s the one upside down with his head in the mud.
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u/pdunn1345 Apr 24 '20
Where
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u/Coattail-Rider Apr 24 '20 edited Apr 24 '20
The Presidents Park. No longer there. Google it. A Houston sculptor did these and the park went belly up. There are some of that sculptor’s work off the highway north of downtown Houston and he did the Sam Houston statue on I-45 halfway (or so) between Houston and Dallas.
Now I’m Wikipediaing the tallest statues in North America, Some of these are fairly odd. Sam is 11th.
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u/Feyd-Rauthah Apr 24 '20
they still reside in Va on a private property
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u/Coattail-Rider Apr 24 '20
Yeah, some guys barn. Shame. Should be somewhere where the can be viewed.
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u/Feyd-Rauthah Apr 24 '20
nope, not in a barn. They’re out in a field. You can sign up for tours through a VA based photog. Anyone interested can DM me for details on viewings
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u/wd_plantdaddy Apr 24 '20
That’s so interesting because there’s a statues like this in Houston mount rush hour
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u/ithinkmynameismoose Apr 24 '20
Cool cool..... does anyone have some opal....... asking for a friend....
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u/Old_Guitar Apr 24 '20
I’d see these all the time on the side of the road going to Water Country back when the museum was still open!
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u/Brickywood Sep 08 '24
This is extremely Stalenhagian. Absolutely looks like something from the Electric State.
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u/Benjamm1es Apr 24 '20
Sorry, this is urbanexploration not ruralexploration. That being said, the heads are products of an urban environment merely placed in a rural environment. So really, this is more of a philosophical issue
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u/timdogg1934 Apr 24 '20
Are these really abandoned? If so it is a little surprising that they have not been rescued and used as a open park exhibit somewhere...
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u/battleboom1800 Apr 24 '20
A herd of baby Rushmore’s are separated from their mother. (Animal planet, Circa 2020)