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Statue of Jack the Pardoned Turkey

Hartford, CT

A bronze turkey commemorates Jack, a nineteenth-century bird linked to Abraham Lincoln and the story that helped inspire the presidential turkey-pardoning tradition. The oddly specific monument turns a bit of White House animal lore into a Hartford roadside stop.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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