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Heritage
PARK
Stroll among Heritage Park’s granite
pools, outdoor sculptures, and interpretive
markers that celebrate Columbus’ industrial
heritage to gain an artistic and historic view
of Columbus. Travel from the past to the
future through Heritage Park, from Historic
Columbus’ Walker-Peters-Langdon House to
Pasaquan the Coca-Cola Space Science Center. From
1850 until 1910, Columbus changed from a
Pasaquan trading town to a booming manufacturing city.
BUENA VISTA, GA Heritage Park is designed to recognize the
Explore out-of-this-world folk art at Pasaquan, entrepreneurs and workers who harnessed
the estate and legacy of self-proclaimed the river and created these industries that
eccentric artist “St. EOM” in Buena Vista, laid the foundations for this modern city. The
GA, near Fort Benning. Amidst Pasaquan’s outdoor sculptures and historic elements
sprawling four acres are dozens of carved of the park represent the textile, gristmill,
walls, pillars, and African-style head brick and foundry industries involved in the
sculptures, all brightly decorated with house growth and development of the area, as well
paint. The imagery is exclusively otherworldly, as agriculture and forest products, dams and
rendered with a discernable sense of humor. bridges, river trade and travel, and Coca-Cola.
pasaquan.com historiccolumbus.com/heritage-park
“Neat little odd place.” “If you are a history buff and
like the low-key local history
Gallery on sites, then add this to your trip.”
TENTH
The Gallery on Tenth is an artists’ co-op
selling local and regional fine art in
Uptown Columbus. galleryon10th.com
“It’s really a gem.” Heritage Park
Sculpture
WALK
See distinctive art around every corner at the
Sculpture Walk in Uptown Columbus. Every
year new pieces of artwork are submitted by
artists all over the U.S. hoping their sculptures
will become a part of this year-long exhibit of
Peace Tree
public art. artbeatcolumbus.org/art-walk
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