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 ...

The cotton gin building was about 45 by 35 feet and two stories tall. Altogether, Bibb said, the cotton gin dig cost about $25,000, which was funded in part by Franklin's Charge and in part by a ...

The gin now has the biggest cotton stand in the world. The Cherokee Magnum 244. 4 feet wider than Cherokee's current gin. The ginning season started late with the new construction, in fact they ...

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 ...

Big Tin Cotton Gin was first built in 1951. It was the hub for the farmers who made Queen Creek what it is today. "The reason that the town of Queen Creek exists is because of basically this ...

This year's cotton harvest is over, cotton gins are cleaning up, making repairs and scaling down till next season. In Monette the new year will bring a new season and a new cotton gin as well.

A man enters an old cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The project demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S ...

The last York County cotton gin died three years ago. Almost to the day, the last ginner is now dead, too. Warren Chappell, "Pete" Chappell to everybody all his life, died late Thursday after an ...

By comparison, in 2023, the average volume per gin dropped a bit to 53,402 bales, but so did acres planted in Arkansas. That year, Arkansas cotton acres declined by 130,000.

There’s a new sign on the cotton gin located just south of Kingstree. Humphrey Coker Seed Company owners D. Brown and Keith Gill purchased the Tri-Cotton and Gin facility in ...

Big Tin Cotton Gin was first built in 1951. It was the hub for the farmers who made Queen Creek what it is today. "The reason that the town of Queen Creek exists is because of basically this ...