Iron Horse

The Iron Horse of Athens, Georgia is located off Georgia 15 in Greene County. The horse stands by itself in a field near some farm area. It is a historical monument because it was fashioned in 1954. The Iron Horse is 12 feet tall. It weighs in at one ton. It was part of the Reed Hall Quadrangle. It was built at Lamar Dodd School of Art as a piece of abstract art. The designer was Abbott Pattison. He visited the University that year and decided to create the Iron Horse. A crowd gathered when it was unveiled.

Due to the crowd that formed with some bad intentions, the fire department was called for crowd control. A day later the horse was moved from the university. The location was not disclosed, but it was eventually found that the horse was placed on LC Curtis Farm. He was a professor of agriculture at the time. Up until the 1980s, there were a lot of movements to try to get the horse back to the campus, but these failed. The grandson of LC Curtis said he would not allow it to be moved back to campus as it does more good where it is.