George Washington Carver Bronze Sculpture
George Washington Carver (1864 – 1943)
Artist: Preston Jackson
A formerly enslaved orphan, Carver became an American agricultural scientist and inventor who taught for many years at Tuskegee Institute. He developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton, and wanted poor farmers to grow other crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes to feed themselves and to nourish the soil. On his grave was written, "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."
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