"The Hewer" Statue
Located in Halliday Park between 9th & 10th on Washington Ave.

This sculpture was executed by the American sculptor George Gray Barnard.  It depicts a man laboring on the shore of a flood hewing and dragging wood to save people from death.  Cited by Lorado Taft as one of the two finest nudes in the U.S., this bronze sculpture was presented to Cairo in 1906 by Mrs. W.P. Halliday and Children.  The Hewer was executed in bronze and not marble because of the cold winters in Cairo, and was first shown at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904.

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