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| Budweiser Clydesdales at the Wisconsin Concrete Park |
Retired lumberjack Fred Smith (1886-1976) and two of his friends built the Rock Garden Tavern on Hwy 13 south of Phillips, Wisconsin in 1936. In 1950 he began populating the grounds around his tavern with life-size concrete sculptures of lumberjacks, cowboys, Indians, soldiers, Northwoods wildlife, horses, oxen, wagons and other characters. A self-taught folk art sculptor, Smith used bits of broken beer bottles from his tavern, as well as glass, mirrors and other materials, to decorate his unique creations. There are 237 figures crowded into what is now a Price County park which is open free to the public. It is one of the Seven Wisconsin Man-Made Wonders.
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