Photograph and information provided by the Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department.

World's Largest Cedar Bucket
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

The bucket was originally built as a promotional exhibit by the Tennessee Red Cedar Woodenworks Company, a manufacturer of cedar buckets in Murfreesboro.  The bucket resided in Murfreesboro, but was exhibited at the World's Columbian Expostion in Chicago in 1893 and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.  In 1950 the cedar bucket factory burned, and the bucket was sold to a local grocer, who kept in on display adjacent to the store.  Around 1965 the bucket was auctioned off to an amusement park in Rossville, Georgia.  The bucket was brought back to Murfreesboro in 1976, where it is now on display in Cannonsburgh Village.

Photograph and information provided by the Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department.