Jimmy Carter Peanut Sculpture: Plains, Georgia

The Jimmy Carter peanut, Plains, Georgia.
An homage to Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia.

Created by Democrats in Indiana for a Jimmy Carter visit during his presidential campaign in 1976, this roadside statue -- a 13-foot peanut -- pays homage to the former president's peanut-farming background and toothy grin.

Its creators subsequently gave it to the president, and it now sits only a stone's throw from his old campaign headquarters in Georgia.

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