Ole also had his workforce build a small dinosaur bone castle in the Park, a petrified wood wishing well and waterfall, and the large Petrified Wood Park Museum buttressed with fossilized spires. Helpful signs point out significant prehistoric features. It looks weird now, but photos from the Park's opening in May 1932 show what Ole had in mind: travelers pulling into town from the treeless open prairie would suddenly find themselves driving through a "forest" of petrified wood. "He wanted it done the way he wanted it done." Ole commanded his men to stack and cement together the boulders, wood, and bones into over one hundred cones, pyramids, and pillars, some over 30 feet high, then had a road cut diagonally through the display. "Every bit of it was his design," she said. The Quammens eventually acquired an estimated 4,000 tons of petrified wood, 600,000 pounds of petrified grass (yes, grass can be petrified), uncounted additional tons of round boulders from the nearby Cannonball River Valley, and 13,000 dinosaur bones.Ĭastle to the left, museum in the background to the right.Īccording to Carolyn Penfield, curator of the Petrified Wood Park Museum, Ole was responsible for the unique look of Petrified Wood Park. Local ranchers were amazed that Ole would scavenge these fossil-rocks that littered their rangeland and haul them into Lemmon. Many of its trees fell into the muck their trunks became fossils. In prehistoric times the region around Lemmon was a swampy floodplain. "Thirty to forty otherwise unemployed men received sustenance during this period," explains a bronze plaque at the site. Then the Great Depression of the early 1930s eliminated many local jobs, and Ole suddenly had the manpower that he needed to make his dream a reality. He and his adult son, David, had kicked around the idea of "a park with no living trees" for years. It is the world's largest - and possibly only - Petrified Wood Park, and the peculiar vision of Ole Sever Quammen (1871-1934), a Lemmon businessman. The practice of connecting with crystals and stones is a practice that is very individual between you and the Earth through the mineral kingdom and one that is developed over time."The Castle" often appeared in Petrified Wood Park postcards. This is a personal practice of connecting to the Earth through their energies and should not be a substitute for traditional medicine. We can not make any guarantee or claim that crystals and stones will have physical impacts on the body or illnesses. Our sizing of the stones are close approximations.ĭisclaimer: Working with crystals and stones is a spiritual practice and we cannot guarantee any stone will have an impact on the individual's physical or mental health. **Please note that due to the nature of our products each piece is unique and therefore varies in colour and size. Provides physical support to the Liver, Nervous System and Skeletal System. It provides strength in all areas of one’s life and is also very grounding. Provides insight into past lives via meditation. “The stone of Transformation”, it assists one in achieving a higher aspect. A variety of chalcedony-jasperized wood from ancient trees that have turned to stone.
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