Big Peach

Bruceville, Indiana, United States

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The Big Peach is a 20-foot concrete peach beside a yellow, scaled-down Washington Monument at a family-run farm market on US 41 at Bruceville, Indiana. The market began with a peach orchard started on the property by the Yates family in 1954.

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Approximate location · 38.760° N, 87.416° W

FIELD GUIDE

The story

A 20-foot concrete peach and a yellow miniature Washington Monument stand beside US 41 north of Vincennes. They front The Big Peach, a farm market in Bruceville that, according to Inside Indiana Business, grew from a peach orchard the Yates family started on the property in 1954.

Roadside America's entry credits Wilbur and Doris Yates with building the peach and the monument that year as a tribute to the Trylon and Perisphere of the 1939 New York World's Fair.

The business has changed hands more than once. In August 2015 Inside Indiana Business called it a fourth-generation southwest Indiana landmark and reported that the couple who had run it since 1978 planned to retire and sell it at auction. In July 2025 the Sun-Commercial covered a ribbon-cutting for the family that has owned the store since 2020 and also runs Melon Acres, a produce farm dating to 1976. The family said it hopes to pass the store to a fourth generation.

What is on the shelves follows the seasons. The Sun-Commercial listed produce from Melon Acres, homemade fudge and pies, local milk and canned goods, with you-pick flowers and, in season, strawberries; a sunflower maze and pumpkin patch were planned for autumn. A 2022 post from the Vincennes/Knox County tourism bureau describes the market as a family-owned farm market open daily from May through October 31 and suggests a photo with the peach.

Plan a summer or early-autumn stop: the Sun-Commercial reported in July 2025 that the store was open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the season, and a 2022 tourism-bureau listing gave a May-to-October season.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Seasonal farm market with the peach and monument out front for photos. In July 2025 the Sun-Commercial described fresh produce, homemade fudge and pies, you-pick flowers and strawberries in season, and a fall sunflower maze and pumpkin patch; it was open daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

ACCESS

At the farm market, 7738 N US Hwy 41, Bruceville, about seven miles north of Vincennes (2022 listing). The peach stands outside the market, which a 2022 tourism-bureau listing gave as open May to October; check current hours before visiting.

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