Bamahenge (fiberglass Stonehenge replica)

Elberta, Alabama, United States

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Bamahenge is a fiberglass replica of Stonehenge in the woods near Barber Marina, close to Elberta in Baldwin County, Alabama. Artist Mark Cline built it for George Barber; Cline gives its size as about 21 feet tall and 104 feet across.

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Approximate location · 30.407° N, 87.512° W

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Alabama's Gulf Coast has a fiberglass Stonehenge replica in the pine woods, reached by a short walk from an unmarked gravel lot.

Bamahenge stands near Barber Marina, close to Elberta in Baldwin County. The Encyclopedia of Alabama says artist Mark Cline created it in 2012 for George Barber, who also owns the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham. Lagniappe reported in 2014 that it had been erected in spring 2013. Cline had already built a foam Stonehenge at Natural Bridge, Virginia, and told the paper that Barber first wanted a version for his motorsports park east of Birmingham before redirecting the work to the marina.

Cline made the stones at his Virginia studio and said it took four tractor-trailer loads to deliver them, with some stones nested inside others. He gave the outer stones as 13 and a half feet tall and the inner ones as over 18 feet; with the lintels on top, the monument is about 21 feet tall and 104 feet across. Each stone is anchored by a wooden pole sunk into a concrete-filled pit, a precaution for a coast that sees tropical storms.

Cline said he lined the circle up so that the summer solstice sunrise falls over the center of three lintels on the outer markers, though he had not tested it himself. A 2025 visitor guide says a sign on site compares the replica with the original, and that it is not a complete copy.

The marina road has more of Cline's work, including dinosaurs scattered through the woods and a floating fiberglass "Lady of the Lake" in the water. A visitor guide describes the path in as about 200 yards and advises insect spray.

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Islands (February 2025) describes the marina-road attractions as free. No opening hours are published for the site, so treat access as unconfirmed.

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On the Barber Marina access road off Fish Trap Road, Elberta (the marina's address is 26986 Fish Trap Rd). A small gravel lot with no sign marks the start of a rock-and-dirt path of roughly 200 yards into the woods; the grass at the monument is bumpy, and a 2025 visitor guide advises insect repellent and leashed pets.

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Lady in the Lake (50 ft fiberglass)

Elberta, Alabama

The Lady in the Lake (officially titled 'Country Girl Skinny Dipping') is a 50-foot fiberglass sculpture of a floating woman -- only her head and knees visible above the water -- created by fiberglass artist Mark Cline at the request of billionaire art patron George Barber. First installed at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Alabama in spring 2012, it was trucked south that November to permanently float in Barber Marina, Elberta. Destroyed by Hurricane Sally in September 2020, the sculpture was repaired at Cline's Virginia studio and returned to Barber Marina, with test-floating and reinstallation reported in mid-to-late 2022.

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