Andrew Jackson, champion of the "common man," has been remembered throughout American history. A Jackson statue in the land of his birth was imagined by Perry Belle Hough of the Lancaster Historic Commission after a visit to Anna Hyatt Huntington's Brookgreen Gardens. Fellow commissioner Nancy Crockett and her students wrote to Mrs. Huntington and asked her to sculpt the statue in honor of "the only South Carolinian to become President." The 10-foot-tall, 3,500-pound bronze statue was dedicated on Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday on March 15, 1967. School children collected pennies, nickels, and dimes to pay for a base for the statue, and the 25,000-pound granite slab was so heavy it bent the crane during installation. Anna Hyatt Huntington was famous for her animal and human sculptures and was over 90 when she finished her sculpture of Jackson.