W. C. Rice's Miracle Cross Garden : Along Route 43, North of Montgomery, Alabama the late environmental artist W. C. Rice constructed, over nearly 30 years, the Miracle Cross Garden. His Garden just outside Prattville, Alabama is legendary, filled with rough wood crosses and hand lettered signs with religious sayings, red paint symbolizing the blood of Jesus, and biblical admonitions such as “Hell is hot, hot, hot” which he placed for passing motorists to see and repent. He began erecting his first crosses in 1976 after receiving instructions from God to erect three wooden crosses as a permanent tribute to his recently deceased mother.