Prehistoric Gardens

Founded in 1955 in Port Orford, the gardens feature 23 life-sized sculptures of dinosaurs set among the lush foliage of the area's temperate rainforest.

[1] The sculptures are created with a steel frame base and sculpted with mesh-like metal lath and concrete.

[4] He dreamed of becoming an artist, and was offered a position as a cartoonist at Walt Disney Studios, but chose a job as an accountant to ensure financial security for his family during the Great Depression.

[3] He owned a mill machinery supply business and worked as a Certified Public Accountant, until, in the early 1950s, he decided to make his childhood dream of a prehistoric park come true.

[5] In 1953 he and his wife sold his accounting business and their home in Eugene and bought 77 acres of land in coastal Oregon.