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The Boll Weevil Monument
Whatever your reason for coming, welcome. As a former long-time Enterprise resident and newspaper reporter who wrote many an article on the much-admired (and often maligned) monument, I've got a soft spot for the bug, so I'm sharing the history of the monument on this site. That includes vandalism t...
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Boll Weevil Monument
, gaining the most attention when it fell victim to yet another act of vandalism in 1998 — this one seemingly destroying it for good. The incident got national attention in an episode of Comedy Cen...
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Boll Weevil Monument
Dr. George W. Carver of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute was scheduled as the dedication event's main speaker, but rain had washed out some railroad tracks and he was delayed. Carver was an ideal choice as speaker, as he encouraged farmers to plant peanuts and other crops for the good of the soil and to...
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thom.org - Boll Weevil Monument
Once upon a time the boll weevil made the crop fail in Enterprise, Alabama. This caused the people of the town to diversify, find other ways to make a living. In this way they escaped the fate of many other Southern towns, and the owe the boll weevil thanks, or at least a monument in the middle of t...
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Boll Weevil Monument: Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel
World’s only monument to a pest. In 1915, boll weevils devoured two-thirds of Coffee County’s cotton crop, forcing local farmers to diversify. Monument is proud reminder of destructive insect that help...
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