Steve Canyon Statue: Idaho Springs, Colorado

©2007 Todd Franklin The U.S. Treasury financed this roadside statue of Steve Canyon.

In 1947, locals changed the name of Idaho Springs' Squirrel Gulch district to Steve Canyon, in honor of a patriotic cartoon character from the 1940s.

Three years later, the U.S. Treasury Department financed this 40-foot-tall limestone carving.

A plaque for the statue pays tribute to "all American cartoon characters who serve the Nation."

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