Discover Ms. Pearl: The World's Largest Squirrel Statue in Texas
Published: July 24, 2024
Updated: July 25, 2024
Ms. Pearl is a squirrel statue situated in Cedar Creek, Texas. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Ms. Pearl, at fourteen feet tall, is the largest squirrel statue in the world. Positioned adjacent to State Highway 71 between Austin and Bastrop, the statue resides on the premises of Berdoll Pecan Candy and Gift Company, a local pecan business.
Constructed in 2011 by Austin firm Blue Genie Art Industries and named through a local contest, the Ms. Pearl statue stands upright, holding a pecan with both hands. Serving as a cultural attraction in Bastrop County, Ms. Pearl has garnered attention from local media and is often lauded as an exemplification of the idiom that "everything’s bigger" in Texas. It stands tall among the giant wildlife statues erected throughout various cities in Texas.
Bibliography:
Austin American-Statesman, July 23, 2018. Houston Chronicle, April 11, 2018. John Kelson, Revised by Paris Permenter and John Bigley, Texas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Offbeat Fun (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2018). Mary Schmidt, “Larger Than Life,” Texas Parks & Wildlife, November 2020.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
José Andrés Herrera Farías, “Ms. Pearl,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ms-pearl.
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