The 108-year-old, 48-foot Black Hawk Statue, also known as The Eternal Indian, sits in a state park on a 77-foot bluff overlooking Oregon, Ill., and has been crumbling from weather and time. Bruce Novak, owner of Indian Oaks GC in nearby Shabbona, Ill., has offered to put $400,000 towards the statue’s repair in exchange for a 50-year lease on 100 acres of another state park, which he would use to expand the club’s nine-hole course to 18 holes.

The director of the Anniston, Ala., property is putting together a business plan with a group of investors in hopes of reopening the golf course two weeks after its closure.