{"id":12624,"date":"2025-10-10T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:42:46","slug":"peg-leg-pete-relocated-to-amelia-island-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/nassau\/nassaucity\/peg-leg-pete-relocated-to-amelia-island-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Peg Leg Pete relocated to Amelia Island Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kate Kimmel
Nassau NewsLine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peg Leg Pete takes a ride up Main Street. Photo courtesy city of Fernandina Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For nearly 50 years, Peg Leg Pete stood on this pedestal at the intersection of Front and Centre Streets in downtown Fernandina Beach, outside the Amelia Island Welcome Center. Photo by Kate Kimmel\/Nassau NewsLine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peg Leg Pete stands guard outside the Amelia Island Museum. Photo by Kate Kimmel\/Nassau NewsLine <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

City officials and Fernandina Pirates Club members gathered at dawn Thursday to relocate the beloved Peg Leg Pete statue to the Amelia Island Museum of History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peg Leg Pete made headlines in late August after it was revealed that a vial of the cremated remains of a Fernandina Pirates Club member were located within the statue\u2019s chest cavity. Discussions about moving the statue, however, began years earlier, when Pirates Club President Joe Brown raised concerns about its deteriorating condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Pirate Club brought the issue to the forefront, which is when we got the engineers to come out and look at him, who determined that he was full of water and a mess basically,\u201d said Mary Hamburg, the city\u2019s communications manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An engineering report concluded that Pete was in peril, and that leaving the statue downtown posed a safety risk to people who climbed on its pedestal for photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phyllis Davis, executive director of the Amelia Island Museum of History, said the decision to relocate the statue came together quickly. The museum originally planned to place Pete beside the Palace Saloon pirate statue, but Pete was too large to fit through the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor now, the plan is to keep him outside, and we may put up a temporary installation,\u201d Davis said. \u201cSince the future of the statue is still uncertain, we aren\u2019t planning on creating anything permanent. If it does stay at the museum, we\u2019ll look for a way to keep people off of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City officials, Fernandina Pirates Club members and statue enthusiasts were relieved that the relocation went smoothly and are hopeful the move will preserve Pete until restoration is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe city is in the process of getting quotes from people who think they can restore him, but unfortunately, no one has been able to guarantee that it will stay together,\u201d Hamburg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fernandina Pirates Club has commissioned an artist to carve a new statue to replace Pete on the now-empty pedestal, but the plan must still go before the City Commission, said Downtown District Manager Lisa Finkelstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working with the Pirates Club on the new statue, but it\u2019s been tabled until this gets sorted out,\u201d Finkelstein said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been with us every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, Peg Leg Pete\u2019s future remains uncertain, but he\u2019ll stand outside the museum for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

kkimmel@nassaunewsline.net<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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