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Cows on the run

Posted in history, tagged , , , , , , , on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s a truck carrying cows either overturned or broke down along the Lincoln Highway in Exton, PA in front of The Guernsey Cow.  The cows, on the loose, were drawn to the giant Guernsey Cow billboard and milled around in its shade and that of the nearby trees. [...]

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The World’s Largest Cow Makes Room for The Lincoln Highway

Posted in famous, history, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In 1972, The Lincoln Highway (Route 30) in Exton, PA was being widened and The Guernsey Cow signs needed to be moved back from the road to make room. As described previously, when the billboard was originally erected right after the end of World War II, the highway department visited Larry Polite and informed him [...]

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The World’s Largest Guernsey Cow

Posted in famous, history, memorabilia, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been meaning for a long time to post a photo of the actual Guernsey Cow sign since, for many (or most), it is what defined The Guernsey Cow. I actually have very few photos of the famous sign. While it was still known as The Exton Dairy Grille, in 1927, Frank B. Foster, the [...]

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