Lucy the Elephant - Trunk Call - Margate, NJ
N 39° 19.247 W 074° 30.694
18S E 542102 N 4352488
Once again our famous, vigilant, roadside behemoth is featured in a very obscure and confusing Zippy Strip. Lucy, a National Register of Historic Places site is over 125 years old (not too bad for a pachyderm)! The beach is only a few yards away.
Waymark Code: WM5WMV
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2009
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Constructed in 1881, this 65-foot wooden elephant stand guard over the coastline of NJ, a sentinel for foreign invaders. Who wouldn't turn around and sail back home at the site of this gigantic monster!
Not every town can boast a resident 65-foot wooden elephant. Lucy the Margate Elephant is the “largest elephant in the world” and is also the oldest remaining example of zoomorphic architecture left in the USA.
Lucy was designed by William Free of Phila. and was constructed in 1881 by J. Mason Kirby, at a cost of $38,000. She is 65 feet tall, with legs 20 feet high and 10 feet in diameter. Her body has a circumference of 80 feet; her head is 58 feet around.
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