ENTERPRISE Ala. (WTVY) - Today marks the 105th birthday of the original Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise. The Pea River Historical Society hosted a birthday celebration for the monument ...

The Boll Weevil Monument, erected in 1919, stands proudly in downtown Enterprise as "the world's first monument built to honor an agricultural pest." The 13-foot-tall statue features a classical ...

Some thought the Mississippi River would provide a natural barrier. It did not. A boll weevil statue in Enterprise, Ala., hails the start of peanut production in the area. Coffee County ...

On Dec. 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields, but forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to ...