Everyone's doing water towers these days. I see the "baseball" tower https://www.yelp.com/biz/baseball-water-tower-fort-mill?hrid=uxn7C0DT4bFlhJA2mivOcg in Fort Mill that's near where the Charlotte Knights practice. There's the Leaning Tower https://www.yelp.com/biz/britten-leaning-water-tower-groom?hrid=jiZFERjENMfqn2pHyEJbfQ along I-40 in Texas. The Dixie Cup https://www.yelp.com/biz/dixie-cup-water-tower-lexington?hrid=d3f8MadsyvYAJiFwG0Vcug in Kentucky at the factory that makes Dixie Cups. And the big Earth water tower https://www.yelp.com/biz/earthoid-water-tank-germantown?hrid=dpvELeLNi7miz_XjsV0HmQ in Maryland that is painted to look like our planet.
The champion is the Peach in Gaffney South Carolina https://www.yelp.com/biz/peachoid-water-tower-gaffney?hrid=1yVcejo353VlCHINw7YWGw that is along I-85. Here in Clanton, this peach is 120 feet tall in Clanton Alabama off Interstate 65 but half the capacity of Gaffney. Yes, Chilton County is Alabama's peach capital. And I find interesting that this peach and the one in Gaffney were constructed by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company: Gaffney's in 1980-81 and Clanton's in 1992.
You'll spot it driving by or you can go out of your way to get closer to it on 7th Street. A couple blocks away is a Peach Statue at Peach Park.
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