You can add one more unusual memorial to Alabama, which is known for a list of them. The city of Eufaula is adding to the list with a monument to a fish. Officials in the lakeside town on the Georgia border have unveiled a 12-foot-tall replica of a largemouth bass to celebrate its claim as the "Big Bass Capital of the World." Bass fishing draws thousands of people to Lake Eufaula each year, and the state tourism agency awarded a grant to construct the monument. It was unveiled Tuesday. The agency also funded a marker celebrating the late Tom Mann, who helped get Eufaula on the fishing map with his lure company. The big fish joins a list of Alabama monuments that includes a boll weevil statue in Enterprise and a coon dog cemetery in Cherokee. You can see some of this notable monuments pictured above.
Eufaula memorializes...the bass.
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Citizens of Enterprise, Alabama erected this memorial to the boll weevil, which reshaped agriculture in the cotton industry.
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This "Golden Peanut" statute resides at the Dothan Visitors' Center. Dothan bills itself as the "peanut capitol" of the world.
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This statute of princess Nocculula is poised at the brink of Nocculula Falls in Gadsden. By legend, a native American princess jumped to her death here, rather than marry a man she's didn't love.
