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The Tin Family is a group of three welded scrap-metal figures on the Enchanted Highway near Regent, North Dakota, raised in 1991 by Gary Greff as the first of the highway's sculptures to be built. North Dakota Tourism gives their heights as 45, 44 and 23 feet.
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Tin Family
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46.44837° N, 102.55146° W
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The story
The first of the Enchanted Highway’s sculptures to be built was a welded scrap-metal family of three, built by a man who had never welded before.
The Tin Family stands on the 32-mile highway that runs from Exit 72 on Interstate 94 south to Regent. North Dakota Tourism bills it as the World’s Largest Tin Family and says it was the first of the highway’s sculptures, giving the father’s height as 45 feet, the mother’s as 44 and the son’s as 23. An archived Prairie Public Dakota Datebook piece instead describes forty-foot figures.
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A roadside stop on the Enchanted Highway, about mile 30 from I-94 Exit 72 and two miles before Regent. North Dakota Tourism lists a parking area and information kiosk at each sculpture, free admission and year-round availability.
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On the county highway between I-94 Exit 72 and Regent, about 30 miles from the interstate. North Dakota Tourism lists it as free and open year-round; the sculpture stands beside a rural road, with a parking area and kiosk.
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