Follow Ohio Route 124 east out of Hillsboro for about a mile, and you’ll arrive at the World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab.
At 68 feet long and 28 feet wide, it’s big enough to house meetings and weddings, which it did in an earlier incarnation as an attraction at the Freedom Worship Baptist Church in Blanchester, Ohio. It was there that a person named Gene Sullivan jumped over it on his motorcycle, as part of a religious promotion called “Jump for Jesus.”
In 2015, a person named Ben Sexton bought it, cut it up with a chainsaw, and reassembled it in Hillsboro, 25 miles east of Blanchester.
It’s worth noting that HIllsboro’s concerns extend beyond crabs:
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Photos by the author.