100 year old pine tree with fiberglass coating on concrete base
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by City of Copperhill 160 Main Street, P. O. Box 640 Copperhill Tennessee 37317
Located Ocoee Street & Highway #68 Copperhill Tennessee
Date:
July 1987. Dedicated July 1987
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Tennessee survey, 1992.
Polk County News (Polk County, TN), July 8, 1987, pg. 1.
Summary:
A depiction of a miner carved from a one hundred year old pine tree. The miner holds a pick in his proper left hand and a lunch pail in his proper right hand. He has a full beard and moustache and wears a miner's helmet with a light. He is dressed in boots and coveralls. The pick the miner holds was carved from a beam of a log cabin more than one hundred years old. The sculpture stands on a round wooden plinth on a rectangular concrete base.
