This kitschy monument has been promoting Georgia’s largest cash crop to passersby on I-75 for nearly forty years. Designed by A. R. Smith, Jr., it was sponsored by the Georgia Peanut Commission as a tribute to the peanut industry and as a memorial to Nora Lawrence Smith, longtime editor and publisher of The Wiregrass Farmer. And while there are other monuments to America’s favorite legume scattered around the country, this one is the largest.
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I’ve gone through Ashburn more times than I can remember on I-75 from Florida and cannot believe I’ve never seen this peanut. Maybe I keep my eyes on the road to much. Accidents happen so fast I’m afraid to view the scenery traveling down I-75.