Kingsport, Tennessee: Big John: Giant Native American (Gone)
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Tall, skinny, nearly nude Native. Home-built by John Barker in 1954. 32 feet tall, with nervously taut hands. Collapsed during an attempted move in March 2025.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...Big John: Giant Indian:
Big John, a giant Indian outside Pratts BBQ Barn in Kingsport, Tennessee, broke his neck in early April 2018.
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The large fiberglass Indian was destroyed accidentally on March 9, in an attempt to move him.
[Clint Jones, 03/28/2025]
The Giant Indian is in great shape; looks to have been painted recently.
[Lindsey, 01/20/2014]
During summers off from the University of Tennessee, I used to serve up some mean breakfast and barbecue at Pratt's Barn in Kingsport. The barbecue was good: tender and tangy! We also served breakfast with the best biscuits and sawmill gravy in town. I'm living in Kentucky now, and I don't know if they still serve breakfast, but try to make it in for a meal. Be sweet to the waitress....and tip her well, she's working hard, I can assure you.
[Laura, 01/11/2008]Page of 2 [Next 5 items]
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The Indian, known as "Big John," was 71 years old. It wasn't his fiberglass that collapsed; it was his wood internal framework.