The Boll Weevil Plague

On the way of the infinite lawn and semi-collapsed barn, there is a quaint town whose motto is "City of Progress". Alabama enterprises are trapped between miles of desolate meadows and pasture cattle, but the peanut factory is overwhelming you. There is a reward for monotonous driving, it is only hidden in the valley of a small shopping street or baptism church in the city center. This is an image reminiscent of the victory of the city against the economic difficulties during the cotton recession.

According to the story, companies like other Wiregrass areas and the whole southern depend on cotton cultivation economy. However, in 1915, Alabama suffered from the influx of Cotton weevils native to Mexico, beetles destroyed local cotton crops. The following year, an enterprise (Why did LOL see what I did there?) I had the idea of ​​changing his crops from cotton to peanuts. As the plague of Watami Mimishi continued, local farmers saw their cotton crops suffering, and farmers' peanuts prosper. It taught the value of local farmers cultivating crops, and built a monument of cotton ball weevils in 1919.

1919 - December 11 - The cotton ball weevil monument is dedicated to the company. This monument commemorates insects that kill cotton and diversifies by planting more beneficial crops such as peanuts in local farmers. The monument praised the cotton ball weevils weevil, but the image of the elephant trunk was not added to the monument until 30 years later. 1920 - State population = 2,348,174: 1920 Census - Caucasian population = 1,447,031 people; African-American population = 900,652 people; rural population = 1,838,857 people; cotton production volume 718,163 people; corn yield: bushel = 43, 499,100 people; Quantity = 3,654