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Black Hawk Statue, Lowden State Park The statue stands on a bluff approximately 140 feet (43 m) feet above the Rock River. The 48-foot (15 m) tall statue, weighing 536,770 pounds (243,470 kg), is said to be the second largest monolithic concrete statue in the world (after Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro).
The statue stands 125 feet (38 m) above the Rock River, though its height only accounts for 48 feet (15 m) of that. Black Hawk weighs 536,770 pounds (243.47 t) and is said to be the second largest concrete monolithic statue in the world. [11] Taft said the statue was inspired by the Sac leader Black Hawk, although it is not a likeness of the chief.
However, many white Americans admired Black Hawk's courage in defense of his band's ancestral lands, and the native leader was elevated to the rank of a folk hero. A statue of Black Hawk was raised on the site in 1892, and the Civilian Conservation Corps redeveloped and improved the park in 1934–1942.
Between 1908 and 1911, on a site just north of the city, sculptor Lorado Taft erected a 50-foot tall statue he had designed and originally named The Eternal Indian. Located on a bluff overlooking the Rock River valley , the sculpture is now known as the Black Hawk Statue , named after Black Hawk , a chief of the Sauk Indian tribe that once ...
Entitled The Eternal Indian, this statue is commonly known as the Black Hawk Statue. [52] In modern times Black Hawk is considered a tragic hero and numerous commemorations exist. [10] These are mostly in the form of eponyms; many roads, sports teams and schools are named after Black Hawk. Among the numerous wars in United States history ...
Confederate statues obscured Lexington’s Black history. Now we can celebrate it. Russell Allen. October 7, 2022 at 9:35 AM ... 2017, when the statues came down, flows like one single day for me ...
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