A thirteen-foot limestone statue of Abraham Lincoln, created by artist Samuel Cashwan and dedicated on May 4, 1938, was funded by the Federal Works Project Administration (W.P.A.) and donations from students of Lincoln Consolidated School. Depicting Lincoln as "The Great Emancipator," it is registered with the Smithsonian Institution as one of the nation's historic treasures. Around the statue stand stone school tablets for the thirteen one-room schools that consolidated in 1924 to form the Lincoln Consolidated School District, arranged in chronological order: Model School (1844), Island School (1847), Redner School (1850), Lowden School (1853), Brick School (1860), Allen School (1860), Tuttle School (1862), Morgan School (1863), Hardy School (1866), Childs School (1867), Bishop School (1869), Centennial School (1876), and Vedder School (1899). The district's formation is credited to Dr. Marvin Pittman of Michigan State Normal College, now Eastern Michigan University, and local residents, and the consolidation was significant for its affiliation with the oldest teacher-training laboratory facility in the West.