The Jolly Green Giant Statue

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"The Valley of the Jolly [ho ho ho] Green Giant" is the Minnesota River valley around Le Sueur. In the city of Blue Earth, stands a statue of the Jolly Green Giant.  In 1978, Blue Earth paid $43,000 to build the 55 feet fiberglass statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the point where the east and west  sections of Interstate 90 linked up (I-90 runs from Seattle to the East Coast, and is the longest four lane highway in the United States).   It is one of the largest statues in the U.S.

Visitors can have their photo taken standing directly under the Green Giant. Blue Earth still has a canning plant formerly owned by Green Giant that continues to can corn and peas each summer.

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