Monticello

Historical marker location:

13154 AL-15, Banks, Alabama

( Marker is on Alabama Route 15, 0.2 miles south of County Road 6636, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2019

Pike County.

Alabama is home to the largest cast iron statue in the world. The Vulcan statue, located in Birmingham, stands 56 feet tall and weighs over 100,000 pounds. It was built in 1904 for the St. Louis World's Fair and was later brought to Birmingham as a symbol of the city's industrial might.