Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cardiff Giant

CARDIFF GIANT, the name given to a rude statue 10½ feet high, dug up, in 1869, at Cardiff, N. Y., and exhibited for months as a petrification. The persons who thus deluded the public at last confessed that the “Giant” had been cut from a block of gypsum quarried at Fort Dodge, Ia., sculptured at Chicago, conveyed to Cardiff, and there buried and “accidently discovered.”