World's Largest Pecan

The giant pecan is a concrete replica measuring 7 by 12 feet and weighing 12,000 pounds, according to the city's tourism page. George and Elizabeth James, who ran pecan orchards on the outskirts of Brunswick for nearly 60 years, built it in 1982 as a model of their patented Starking Hardy Giant, a strain George had discovered on the property in 1947. It first stood in front of the family's Nut Hut roadside stand on the north side of Highway 24. By 2010 the farming operation had ceased and the property was sold, and in 2013 the James children donated the pecan to the Chariton County Community Foundation, which placed it in town. A historical marker records the gift.

The title did not last. According to Texas Highways in 2024, Seguin, Texas, had held the title with an earlier, smaller pecan until Brunswick's took it in 1982; a Seguin leadership class of 2010 to 2011 then built a 16-by-8-foot fibreglass pecan, which Texas Highways describes as larger than Brunswick's.

The city's tourism page invites visitors to stop and take photographs beside the pecan at 113 W. Broadway Street, on the north side of Highway 24.