Story Monument, is a public artwork by American

United States

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 artist William Galloway, located at the intersection of State Road 135 South and Elkinsville Road in Story, Indiana

Story, Indiana

Story is an unincorporated town in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana. This area of the state now appropriately called Indiana was opened to European settlement on September 30, 1809, upon the consummation of a treaty between Governor William Henry Harrison and the Miami Indians...

, United States. Story Monument was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's

Smithsonian Institution

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 Save Outdoor Sculpture!

Save Outdoor Sculpture!

Save Outdoor Sculpture! is a community-based effort to identify, document, and conserve outdoor sculpture in the United States. By fostering awareness and appreciation, SOS! aims to advocate proper care of a nationwide public resource....

 survey in 1993. The monument is a tribute to the economy of Story.

Description

The monument is carved to look like a tree trunk

Tree Trunk

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 with its limbs cut off. The sculpture is carved with images of a wagon wheel

Wagon Wheel

The Blue and Gold Wagon Wheel, now known simply as the Wagon Wheel, is awarded to the winner of the annual college football game between the University of Akron and Kent State University....

, a deer

Deer

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, a dogwood

Dogwood

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 tree and vine.

Information

The sculpture was built to represent, according to Save Outdoor Sculpture!,"the economic decline of Story in the 1930s, and its susequent rebirth in the late 1970s." The carving of the wagon wheel represents the Studebaker

Studebaker

Studebaker Corporation was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868 under the name of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the company was originally a producer of wagons for farmers, miners, and the...

factory that was located in Story in 1920s.

Condition

This sculpture, which was incomplete at survey in 1993, was described as "well maintained."