“He called me one day and came across the road. He had this piece of paper in his hand. He said, ‘Hey, nobody can see my rock. They’re just not noticing it. I want to put something behind it that kind of brings people’s attention to it.’”

Hill said Shepperd had a copy of an encyclopedia with an arch of Stonehenge on it.

“So he said, ‘Let’s put up one of these. You can get me some of these rocks that we could put behind there.’

Hill said they considered adding real stones, but decided the expense would be too great.

“I said, well, I worked with a guy who taught me about stucco and plaster and building walls with curves in them, planters and stuff like that. I think I can do something that’ll look like that,” Hill said.

“OK, what do you think it will cost us?”

Hill said he gave him a number, and work began.

It was built by sinking steel reinforcement bars into concrete bases, wrapping them with metal lathe and applying cement.

After the first arch was completed, the two did four more, adding realism to the fabricated “rocks.”

Then Shepperd decided to go for broke, and asked Hill to complete the ring of arches that comprise the ancient monument. Stonehenge II was completed in 1991.

And, a year and a half after Stonehenge II was completed; Shepperd had Hill build two replicas of Easter Island statues.

Shepperd said, Hill enjoyed Stonehenge II for several years before he died in 1994. Hill, whose house is across FM 1340 from Stonehenge, said it’s not unusual for 200-300 people to view it on a weekend, and up to 500 during the summer.

“This little curve has never been the same since,” Hill said of the stretch of FM 1340 that runs by Stonehenge II. It is about two miles west of Hwy. 39.