“In 1954, University of Georgia artist-in-residence Abbott Pattison sculpted the 12-foot Iron Horse out of metal. An entirely post-World War II development, metal sculpture was making one of its first appearances in the country on the UGA campus.
On the very evening that the sculpture of the Iron Horse was placed in front of Reed Hall, a number of disgruntled students set to work with their own creative ideas for the piece.
The horse was scribbled on with paint, hay was shoved into its mouth while manure was scattered on the ground behind it, and finally a mattress was placed under it and set on fire.
Then in 1958, J.A. Williams, dean of students and director of development, wrote a letter to Dodd, telling him that L.C. Curtis of the university’s horticulture department wanted to take the horse and put it on his land where people could drive by and see it.
And so the horse stands, subject of a wealth of stories brought on by the initial negative reaction to its presence on campus. A legend in its own time, the Iron Horse shares its history in Athens with its home in Greene County.”TONIGHT WE VISIT THE IRON HORSE!
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