| "The world's largest bottle" was built five miles north
of Toomer's Corner in 1924. It was at the intersection where the
extension of College Street (Lee County Road 147) runs into U.S. Highway
280. Painted bright orange, the structure was sixty-four feet tall
and forty-nine feet around at its base. It was shaped like a Nehi
drink bottle and was a combination home, grocery, and service station.
Visitors could see miles of countryside from windows in the neck and from
the bottle cap, an observation tower. Although fire destroyed the
structure in 1933, decades later the intersection was still called The
Bottle. -- Photo: The Auburn Alumnews |
