Ed Galloway completed the main concrete totem pole at his Oklahoma park in 1948.
Galloway began the project after retiring in 1937 and moving to a farm near Foyil, Oklahoma. The monumental sculpture used modern construction materials rather than a single tree trunk, including six tons of steel, 28 tons of cement and 100 tons of sand and rock.
The finished pole stands approximately 90 feet tall and is about 30 feet wide at its base. It rests on the back of a turtle and is decorated with roughly 200 bas-relief images, including human figures, animals and symbols. The park is located near historic Route 66 in Rogers County.
The wider site contains eleven sculptures and an eleven-sided Fiddle House. The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1999. Its largest sculpture is commonly promoted as the world’s largest concrete totem pole, making the site an unusual example of Oklahoma folk art and roadside culture.