{"id":2882,"date":"2026-08-12T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:14:09","slug":"visiting-the-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once upon a time, in Williamsburg, Virginia, there was an attraction called Presidents Park. It featured 15 foot busts of the Presidents of the United States along with interpretive signs and, I&#8217;m sure, a gift shop. It only lasted for six years before going bankrupt. The land eventually sold, the sculptures had to be demolished, but the owner of the demolition company couldn&#8217;t do it so he moved them to his property on the other side of town. <a href=\"https:\/\/thepresidentsheads.com\/\">The Presidents Heads<\/a> have been there for more than a decade, with nature taking its toll. The property is open a few times a years for visitors and may itself soon be sold. So, when I saw tickets available, I jumped at the chance to get access to this very unusual attraction. I had never visited the original attraction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tour guide shared lots of information and stories, but the real fun was wandering amongst these decaying colossi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/albums\/72177720334423430\/' title='Presidents Heads, June 2026 by TheRichardsons, on Flickr'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55361511412_3b1b794108_c.jpg?resize=604%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" alt='Lincoln Close Up'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, in Williamsburg, Virginia, there was an attraction called Presidents Park. It featured 15 foot busts of the Presidents of the United States along with interpretive signs and, I&#8217;m sure, a gift shop. It only lasted for six years before going bankrupt. The land eventually sold, the sculptures had to be demolished, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting the Presidents<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[367,789],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-history","tag-the-presidents-heads"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-Ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}