It's about two and a half hours southeast of the White House, but a little field in Croaker, Virginia, is now home to some very presidential figures.

The farm belongs to Howard Hankins, who salvaged the giant statues from an open-air "Presidents Park" that closed in 2010. Hankins was supposed to destroy the concrete heads, but instead he offered to give them a new home.

"They called me and wanted to know if I would come down there and crush [the heads] and haul them away," Hankins told the website DCist last year. "I said, 'Heck no, can I have 'em? I'm going to preserve them.'"

Here's what the statues used to look like in their former home in Williamsburg, before the Presidents Park museum went bust.

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Monday, February 15, 2016

There Are 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Sitting In A Virginia Field

It's about two and a half hours southeast of the White House, but a little field in Croaker, Virginia, is now home to some very presidential figures.

The farm belongs to Howard Hankins, who salvaged the giant statues from an open-air "Presidents Park" that closed in 2010. Hankins was supposed to destroy the concrete heads, but instead he offered to give them a new home.

Here's what the statues used to look like in their former home in Williamsburg, before the Presidents Park museum went bust.

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