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Summerville, South Carolina: World's Largest Sweet Tea

Standing over 15 feet tall, a replica mason jar dispensed over 2,500 gallons of Sweet Tea on June 10, 2016.

Address:
200 S. Main St., Summerville, SC
Directions:
In the courtyard of the Summerville Municipal Complex. Not visible from road.
Admission:
Free
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World's Largest Sweet Tea.

World's Largest Sweet Tea

This attraction had a makeover in April 2025. The area was cleaned and there are two benches to sit on.

[Alex Blasingame, 07/16/2025]

The jar of tea now also displays an official Guinness World Record banner that gives its capacious capacity: 2,524 gallons.

World's Largest Sweet Tea

It is hidden very well, so you really gotta look for it because it's behind the courthouse in between the courthouse and the parking garage.

[Michelle Taylor, 12/30/2024]
World's Largest Sweet Tea

Semi-hard to find this big replica mason jar of sweet tea while walking the city blocks. Keep your eye peeled in-between buildings.

[john korman, 06/09/2022]

World's Largest Sweet Tea.

World's Largest Sweet Tea

It's the worlds largest sweet tea.

[Brandon Burgess, 04/16/2017]

The replica Mason jar stands over 15 feet tall. On June 10, 2016, it was filled with 2,524 gallons of Sweet Tea, establishing a new World's Record, and beating the old record of 2,200 gallons set only nine months earlier in North Charleston.


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