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