Museums
History BuffUnited States Army Aviation Museum
No admission feeWalk past a century of Army aircraft, from a Wright Model B replica to the RAH-66 Comanche, at a free museum on Fort Rucker.
Photo: USDA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
SightseeingQuirky FunHistory Buff
Boll Weevil Monument
Stop at the downtown fountain where a town thanked a cotton pest for pushing its farmers into peanuts.
College St and Main St, downtown Enterprise · Enterprise, AL
About Boll Weevil Monument
Enterprise put up this monument in 1919 to thank the boll weevil, the beetle that wrecked local cotton and pushed farmers to plant peanuts. A classical woman holds a giant boll weevil over her head above a fountain at College and Main Streets, and the whole piece stands over 13 feet tall. The figure you see today is a resin replica put up in 1998 after vandals damaged the original. Read the inscription calling the weevil a herald of prosperity.
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What's around here?
The closest stops to Boll Weevil Monument, ordered by straight-line distance.
