Boll Weevil Monument

The Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, Alabama, United States is a conspicuous point of interest and tribute raised by the nationals of Enterprise in 1919 to demonstrate their thankfulness to a bug, the boll weevil, for its significant impact on the region's horticulture and economy. Hailing the bug as a "messenger of success," it remains as the world's first landmark worked to respect a farming pest.

The boll weevil Anthonomus grandis, in some cases alluded to as the "Mexican cotton boll weevil" was indigenous to Mexico, however, showed up in Alabama in 1915. By 1918 agriculturists were losing entire cotton harvests to the insect. H. M. Sessions considered this to be a chance to change the territory to shelled nut cultivating. In 1916 he persuaded C. W. Baston, an obliged agriculturist, to back his wander.

The primary product paid off their obligations and was purchased by ranchers looking to change to shelled nut cultivating. Cotton was developed once more, yet ranchers figured out how to expand their harvests, a training which conveyed new cash to Coffee County.