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

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 09, 2024
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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 …

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