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A plaque at the site reads "dedicated to Jack Olson's vision of a
Century 21 Stonehenge". The concept was the vision of Jack Olson, an aerospace engineer and designer. Though Olson died of cancer in 2001 before construction began, the community raised funds to make his dream a reality, along with
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John (Jack) Olson was an aerospace engineer and inventor. He was born on a farm near
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six walls with slots that act as a solar calendar, with direct sunlight passing through the slots only on the winter and summer
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during World War II as a B-24 instructor pilot. In 1950 he joined
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