Corn stalks are notoriously tall but the ears themselves were never as tall as a man until the construction of the public art display known to locals as "Cornhenge."
Completed in 1994 and officially (and plainly) named Field of Corn, the 109 white concrete corn cobs sprout right from the ground just off the highway. The installation sits on a former corn field that was worked by farmer Sam Wentz. Wentz was not only farmed the land, but was also responsible for the invention of several species of hybrid corn. In fact the corn statues are specifically molded to look like the Corn Belt Dent Corn varietal. While the work is meant to honor both Wentz and Ohio's rich agricultural past, many locals see the food-shaped rocks as nothing more than an ironic joke: tax dollars spent to honor food farmers ending up creating inedible food.
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