Enterprise, Alabama, is home to the world's only monument to an agricultural pest: the boll weevil.
By destroying the cotton in Coffee County (named after a general, not the beverage), the weevil caused farmers to start growing peanuts and thus regain prosperity.
Wikipedia tells more.
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