Who is there a statue of in your city/town?

I don't know about one here in my town, however, back home in Alabama there is this small town not too far from where I was raised called Enterprise, Alabama. I have a friends who live there and have visited a number of times...This town is known for the huge statue they have in middle of downtown of the "Boll Weevil" It's actually the only monument erected to an agricultural pest. I would sit around and listen to all the older people tell me the many stories about the boll weevil... It's a statue of a woman holding a large version of the insect over her head smack dab in the middle of town, right in the center of Main Street. They even have security cameras nearby that monitors this statue due to so many vadalizings to this statue... The history behind this statue is that there was a bad swarm of boll weevils that came and destroyed the cotton crops and forced many farmers to switch to growing different crops, such as peanuts...Some of the farmers even refused to plant anything but cotton and they suffered for it sometimes loosing their farms... Later it was asked why Alabama built a monument to this pest? One of the reason is because it forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to pursue the farming of other crops as well as manufacturing...

That is almost funny....no, it is funny! I don't think that there are any statues where I live but there is a wonderful African American woman here that I worked with about 15 years ago who was in her late 60s then. At that point in her life she was just beginning to go to college and get her Bachelor's Degree. As if that was not enough for one woman to do she was one of the major influences in getting both the Habitat for Humanity Program started here and the annual Multi-Cultural Festival. Now, was that enough for her? Oh, my no! She enlisted the aid of others and turned what used to be "the colored children's school" into an African American museum. This truly marvelous woman is my all time s/hero. I have written to Oprah and to Ellen but have gotten no response from either of them about her. My city has no NAACP, so I called the closest city that has one and was told to contact my local one, I told them that I had no local one, that they were my closest one, I was told that I needed to contact my local one! Catch 22 flashback! ~Donna

Strange choice, I hope it works ut for them! We have Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost statues, Henry Ward Beecher and Nathaniel Webster ,too.

well i guess if rocky means something to them, ok. In my town we have a statue to the ex British prime minister Harold Wilson, simply because he was born there

I live in London, so like most European capital cities, we have more statues than we know what do with! LOL! I guess Nelson on top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, is one famous one. We have loads of Queen Victoria, and King Edward VII too. I must admit I like your story!

there is no statures in our town. We do have a tomb for VFW and it has all the names of the brave folks who have served from our county. It is really nice.

I live in Dallas, we have alot of sculptures, I suppose the most disturbing one tho is Rober E Lee at Lee Memorial Park...

In my city Faro i have the Statue of D. Afonso III, that was a king that occupied our region from the marooco people back. He is with his backs to the castle because the legend say that the princess that lived with him gave the keys of the city to an muslim guy because love.

I live in Orlando and have for about 20 years and we don't have a statue of anyone in our downtown. We usually have some sort of weird art structure, but no statue. Maybe we should Walt Disney in the middle of downtown.

we have many statues in our city

we have a lot of monuments here. most of them are national heroes, past presidents and the like. as for actors or characters in the movie, i'm not aware of anything like that here.

what u think about rajnikant? waht is doing naveee?

in our city we have a statue of vivekananda

We have alot but the one i like is Ambedkar

in manila, there is Jose Rizal, our national hero. in makati, there is ninoy aquino, former senator who was killed that caused revolution in 1986.

Jose Rizal, he is everywhere in our place

i live in toronto, anyone know what our statue is?

We have this statue of a hero who fought the foreign enemy. I'm not too familiar with it actually.

I live in Colorado Springs, CO and our Statue is of General Palmer, he is riding a horse. Right in the middle of an intersection, kind of hard to drive aroud