The town that built a monument to the insect pest that nearly destroyed It

The Boll Weevil Monument, Enterprise, Alabama (USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library. Public Domain)

A monument in Enterprise, Alabama, dedicated to a beetle that tanked its town's economy by devastating its cotton crops.

The Boll Weevil Monument, erected in 1919, stands proudly in downtown Enterprise as "the world's …