On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the ...
In pre-Civil War Tennessee and Alabama, slaves used wooden ginning machines to turn cotton into clothing, according to Tony Mullins of Louisiana, who collects the devices shown in the accompanying ...
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students ...
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into apartments in this central Alabama city — a factory that played a key role in ...
DOERUN, GA (WALB) - Southwest Georgia’s rich farmlands have been hit hard by Hurricane Michael. Millions of dollars expected to be lost in the cotton industry alone. Click this link to see how many ...
A three-story cypress wood frame structure covered with corrugated tin is a monument to 13 Southeast Texas farmers pursuing their dreams of making a living growing cotton, a crop viewed a century ago ...
The last bits and pieces of a historic cotton business that served South Carolina farmers for decades will be up for sale starting this week as a bankruptcy court trustee looks to recoup money for ...
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The way cotton is harvested now, you can leave it on the side of a field for five or six months and it's still good to gin." He has eight employees at the gin who work from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. seven ...
The Gilbert Depot was built in 1905 of red brick in the Spanish Colonial style. Many of the merchants’ sales items came by way of train in the 1940s Gilbert could have been named Coincidence, Arizona ...
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PRATTVILLE — A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students and staff ...