A New York state town is trying to decide how to move a historic landmark -- a 20,000-pound duck.

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The Big Duck, as it is known on the East End of Long Island, would have to travel 4 miles, Newsday reported.

The Duck, made from concrete, was created in 1931 by a Riverhead poultry farmer who was a pioneer in the creation of monumental roadside advertising aimed at drivers speeding by. As the ancestor of everything from restaurants shaped like coffee pots and paint stores as huge cans of paint, to the McDonald's Golden Arches, the Big Duck has been designated both a state and national historic landmark.

Officials in Southampton hope that moving the Big Duck to a former duck farm in Flanders would help spur economic recovery in what has become a depressed area, the newspaper said. The Maurer Duck Farm housed the Big Duck for many years and has now been bought by the town for use as a park.