GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER - Mesa, AZ
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N 33° 28.220 W 111° 40.300
12S E 437590 N 3703631
This is a life-sized, bronze statue of George Washington Carver, 1864 - 1943. Eric Blome is the sculptor, Chicago, Illinois. The statue is located at the Southwestern Corner, Sonoran Heights Park, a family park in the Las Sendas community.
Waymark Code: WM12N4G
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2020
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George Washington Carver was an African-American scientist, botanist, inventor, and environmentalist who revolutionized Southern agriculture. Became director of Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute and was a pioneer in the field of discovering uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, cotton, tobacco, corn stalks, and crop rotation. Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame.
I am 5'5", and the statue is about my size. Washington is bent over admiring a flower. He is wearing a hat to protect his head from the Arizona sun; pants, boots, a shirt and a jacket.
[American scientist, botanist, inventor, and environmentalist who revolutionized the agriculture of the South. "Start where you are with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied."]
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