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According to the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in the southeast Texas town of Burton, Dallas County had 78 cotton gins in the 1930s, including six within Dallas’ city limits.(Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer ...
Students of farming history already know that the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1792, had nothing to do with the liquor of the same name. It was a slang term for an engine (or device), which ...
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Everyone that lives on the South Plains knows how important cotton is to our economy. Here in Lubbock, the historical commission will soon dedicate a state marker to the first ...
DAVIS STATION — The owner of a cotton gin that's been around for 76 years wants to sell the business to pay off creditors, according to court papers filed less than a month after South Carolina ...
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 ...
Cotton-related events in Arkansas history include the Lee County cotton-picker strike of 1891, the Elaine Massacre of 1919, and the formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union in 1934 as tension ...
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