Kadie the Cow and Bebe Woodruff Riverwalk Park

Columbus, Georgia, United States

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Kadie the Cow is a 20-foot fiberglass cow, Columbus, Georgia's official cow, who stood beside a dairy plant site from 1967 and was moved on 29 November 2022 to Bay Avenue near Woodruff Park in Uptown, according to Visit Columbus.

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Approximate location · 32.466° N, 84.988° W

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Kadie the Cow, a 20-foot fiberglass cow, spent more than half a century at the same site off Manchester Expressway before Columbus moved her to the riverfront. Visit Columbus says she weighs 2,300 pounds and is the official cow of Columbus, Georgia.

She has stood in the city since 1967. Best Buy later wrote that the site off Manchester Expressway was then home to a dairy plant, and Visit Columbus says she served as a mascot outside Kinnett Dairies, which relocated in the early 2000s. Local activism kept her on the site as the property became a Best Buy. When the store announced in 2019 that it would move, Best Buy said it had signed an easement with the city so she could stay, and gave her a makeover; the city declared 9 June 2019 Kadie the Cow Day.

With the store gone, she stood alone in an empty lot. In April 2022 WTVM described the lot as vacant, with low visibility and limited public access, and reported that Uptown Columbus planned to move her to Bay Avenue near the Splashpad, helped by donations of nearly $33,000. WRBL reported that the city council had approved the proposal and that the $32,826 raised would pay to move and refurbish her. Visit Columbus says she was moved to her present home near Woodruff Park on 29 November 2022.

Her calf, BeBe, has a history of its own. In March 2023 WTVM reported that BeBe had been missing for seven years before a man who did not want to be identified returned it to Uptown Inc. Uptown's president told the Ledger-Enquirer that the calf had wandered off from Kadie a number of times, and that officials wanted it well anchored, and repaired, before reuniting the pair.

Visit Columbus places Kadie along Bay Avenue, in sight of the Chattahoochee RiverWalk near Banks Food Hall, within eyesight of Whitewater Express and RushSouth Whitewater Park.

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A 20-foot fiberglass cow statue on Bay Avenue in Uptown Columbus, by Woodruff Park. Visit Columbus says she can be seen from the Chattahoochee RiverWalk near Banks Food Hall and is near Whitewater Express and RushSouth Whitewater Park.

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Bay Avenue near Woodruff Park, Uptown Columbus, Georgia, on the Chattahoochee RiverWalk side. A public outdoor statue; Visit Columbus describes locals and visitors looking up to see her from the RiverWalk.

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