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Upper Falls in the Old Man's Cave gorge, Hocking Hills, with visitors on the rocks

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Old Man's Cave, Hocking Hills · Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0

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01Old Man's CaveHocking Hills · SoutheastA gorge of waterfalls and recess caves where a hermit is said to have lived, with the park's visitor center. 02Great Serpent MoundAdams County · SouthwestA gigantic earthen snake on a hilltop over Ohio Brush Creek, built by a people whose name is still argued over. 03Brandywine FallsCuyahoga Valley · NortheastThe tallest waterfall in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, reached by an easy boardwalk with an accessible upper overlook. 04Marblehead LighthouseMarblehead · Lake ErieThe oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes, lit since 1821, on nine acres of limestone shoreline. 05Zoar VillageTuscarawas County · EasternA well-preserved communal village founded by German separatists in 1817, on the Ohio & Erie Canal. 06Longaberger Basket BuildingNewark · CentralA seven-story office building shaped like a picnic basket, with handles that are heated in winter.

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Field of Corn (Cornhenge)

Dublin · Franklin County
Public art
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109 six-foot ears of concrete corn standing in rows in a Columbus suburb.

Ears
109 concrete ears, each about six feet tall and roughly 1,500 pounds, more than 80 tons in all
Artist
Malcolm Cochran, commissioned by the Dublin Arts Council and completed in 1994
Trees
Osage orange trees, once planted as hedges between fields, frame one end
Land
Once the farm of Sam and Eulalia Frantz, who worked with Ohio State on hybrid corn
Nickname
Cornhenge
Admission
Free; the ears are for viewing, not climbing

The story

In 1993 the Dublin Arts Council brought the sculptor Malcolm Cochran to an empty half-acre and asked what he thought. He noticed a line of old Osage orange trees, which early farmers planted as hedges, and learned the land had been a farm, where Sam Frantz, a hybrid-corn breeder who worked with The Ohio State University, had developed new strains. Cochran made molds of three ears of a corn variety Frantz would have known, blew them up to more than six feet and cast 109 of them in white concrete, then set them upright in rows, turned slightly so no pattern of kernels repeats.

He has said he was startled by how fast farmland was turning into development around Dublin, and that he sees the piece as a memorial. The land had been farmed for some 1,800 years, and the white ears also recall the rows of identical white markers at Arlington National Cemetery. Locals call it Cornhenge, and plaques beneath the trees tell the story of the field and of corn.

The park is at the corner of Rings and Frantz roads.

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Visiting

Status
Open; park
Hours
Open to view from the road or on foot.
Cost
Free.
Phone
See the Dublin Arts Council
Please note
Please do not climb the ears.
Address
Sam and Eulalia Frantz Park, 4995 Rings Rd, Dublin, OH 43017
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Parks nearby

Delaware State Park
About 20 miles · A lake and fort-history park to the north.
Open
Alum Creek State Park
About 25 miles · A big lake park near Columbus.
Open

Details last checked 2026-09-22. Confirm hours and prices before you go.

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