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Title	E.T. Wickham roadside park and Wickham Cemetery: tombstone of Susan Wickham
Creator(s)	Wickham, Enoch Tanner
Contributor(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	2002
Coverage	2000-2009
Property name	E.T. Wickham roadside park and Wickham Cemetery
Property type	Cemetery
Community Name	Palmyra-Shiloh, Montgomery County, TN
Latitude/Longitude	36.399838,-87.473411
Description	Color photograph of stone or concrete cross with embedded blue stones. The base reads "Susan - Eloine Wickham June 12, 1948". It is mounted on low grave enclosure. Other monuments are visible in the background.
Historical Notes	Enoch Tanner Wickham (1883-1970) created a roadside park across from his own concrete and log home that was full of concrete sculpture devoted to famous events and people in American history. He also created sculptures with powerful religious imagery at his family cemetery in rural Montgomery County. Statues include likenesses of Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, Alvin York, and wing-spread angels. Wickham was not discovered as an artist until after his death, but some of his work was featured in the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. Some installments were then removed to Austin Peay University. In 2000, the National Endowment of the Arts awarded a grant for a combined effort from Austin Peay Professors and the Custom House Museum in Clarksville to document and interpret Wickham's contributions to Tennessee's self-taught art traditions. This resulted in a major exhibit and catalog about Wickham's sculptures at the Custom House Museum in 2001.
Collection Name	Southern History Documentary Projects
Subject-LCSH	Sepulchral slabs Cemeteries
Subject-TGM	Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Type	Still image
Format	jpeg2000
Genre	Photograph
Extent	35 mm slide
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Source file	WickhamParkCemetery003