Foamhenge Gets New Home: Cox Farms in Fairfax

FAIRFAX, VA — For more than a decade, of all the offbeat attractions in and around Natural Bridge outside Lexington, Va., Foamhenge perhaps was the most striking of all.

But now the exact replica of the famed Stonehenge structure (except it's made from foam and not stone) is heading to a new home: Fairfax.

Creator and artist Mark Cline has told multiple media outlets he's giving the exhibit to Cox Farms, a 116-acre parcel in Fairfax County that hosts a fall festival each year from Sept.-Nov.

“They’ll be good stewards for this thing,” Cline told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “They have the resources and the land and the wherewithal to take it to the next level for it to survive.”

Foamhenge couldn't survive at its former location because the long-privately owned Natural Bridge soon will become a state park, and officials said the exhibit didn't mesh with the ideals of a state park.

Cox Farms representative Lucas Cox told Washingtonian the exhibit will be used beginning in the fall of 2017 during the fall festival.

Photo via Flickr: susan_3115