Eufaula memorializes...the bass.

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.

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Pat Duggins is news director for Alabama Public Radio.