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The boll weevil was not added until thirty years later, when Luther Baker thought the Boll Weevil Monument should have a boll weevil on it. He made the boll weevil and mounted it atop the statue. The nearby Depot Museum housed the original statue for a time. In 2019 it was moved to the Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society's Gift Shop.
Dancin' Dave Whatley posing next to his Headland Peanut during the unveiling in 2015. Dave Whatley (31 March 1927 – 21 September 2015), better known as Dancin' Dave, was an American street performer and local celebrity in the Wiregrass, especially around Dothan, Alabama. He was well known for his dances which he would perform for a small ...
Peanuts Around Town is a public art project organized by The Downtown Group, consisting of 5-foot-tall (1.5 m), life-sized peanut sculptures decorated in various fashions and displayed around Dothan. [ 79 ]
The statue was toppled on July 16, 2016 when a policeman accidentally crashed his patrol car into the monument; the statue fell from its pedestal and was heavily damaged. In 2017, the Demopolis city council voted 3–2 to move the damaged Confederate statue to a local museum and to install a new obelisk memorial that honors both the Union and ...
A statue in his image is being planned for Peanuts Park downtown. In March 2022, the city reopened Peanuts Park and the farmers market after $6.5 million worth of improvements were made to the ...
The city erected the statue because the destruction of the cotton crop by the boll weevil had led to agricultural diversity, starting with peanuts and more prosperity than had ever come from cotton alone. It is the only statue to an insect pest in the world. Enterprise is right outside the U.S. Army's Fort Novosel, the home of Army Aviation.
DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — We are less than 24 hours away from the start of the national peanut festival, and this is the 80th year! Nearly 200,000 guests are expected over the next 10 days. But ...
Peanut Monument may refer to: State Peanut Monument (List of Georgia state symbols) in Turner County, Georgia on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn, Georgia; Peanut Monument at the Dothan, Alabama Visitor Information Center, proclaiming Dothan as the "Peanut Capital of the World"