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“Disaster struck when the boll weevil finally reached Coffee County in 1915. It destroyed many cotton crops, leaving farmers in a financial bind and the area in a slump. However, one Enterprise businessman realized the boll weevil was on a course to severely damage local prosperity, so he took matters into his own hands. His name was H.M. Sessions, and he determined that peanuts would make a good crop for the area. In 1916 he convinced a deeply-indebted farmer named C.W. Baston to take a chance on peanuts for one year. Baston was a cotton farmer who had been hit hard by the boll weevil, and Sessions’ offer to supply the peanuts for planting, a picker to harvest them with, and $1 a bushel was too good to refuse.”

Enterprise, Alabama later built a monument to the Boll Weevil.