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In downtown Enterprise, Alabama, the Boll Weevil Monument honors the insect whose destruction of local cotton crops helped drive the region toward a more diversified farm economy. After the boll weevil reached Alabama in 1915 and cotton losses mounted, H. M. Sessions persuaded farmer C. W. Baston to plant peanuts in 1916, and the successful crop encouraged others to follow. Dedicated in 1919, the monument became a symbol of turning disaster into prosperity. Its classical female figure supporting a boll weevil-topped pedestal has been repeatedly damaged or stolen, and after severe vandalism in 1998, a replica replaced the original in downtown Enterprise.
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