Gainesville, Florida: The Turlington Turd
Called "potato rock" by self-censoring press, the Turd is a 10 ton boulder of lumpy chert donated to the University at Gainesville by the Florida Crushed Stone Company. It's baffled students, who coined its scatological nickname, since 1984.
- Address:
- 330 Newell Drive, Gainesville, FL
- Directions:
- On the campus of the University of Florida, outside the entrance to Turlington Hall. I-75 exit 387. drive east on Hwy 26/Newberry Rd for 4.5 miles. Turn right at the stoplight onto Buckman Drive. Drive south a quarter-mile. Turn left onto Union Rd. Drive one block. Turn right at the stop sign onto Newell Drive. Drive a half-block. You'll see the round windows of Turlington Hall on the right, and just past them, in a little plaza, stands the Turd.
- Admission:
- Free
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Strange name, but we went looking for it. For whatever reason we thought that it wouldn't be bad to go to the campus on a Sunday. We were wrong. Kids everywhere. Lots of one-way streets. When we found it we couldn't park anywhere, so we drove back around and took our pictures. The campus was under a lot of construction.
[bordeauxbarb, 01/29/2022]
The boulder is made of limestone and sea shells.
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A scatalogical nickname for a landscape feature passed by generations of students attending class in Florida University at Gainesville's Turlington Hall.