A 1.5-mile avenue lined with over 400 live oak trees creates a tunnel of branches draped with Spanish moss. It’s like driving through a scene from a dream or a movie set. The trees were planted in the ...

Landmark concert venues, museums, and music trails around the South continue to tell the region’s ever-changing sonic story.

From Columbus to the Cotton Gin: The Crop That Changed a Nation In this edition of the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold shares a pivotal chapter in American farming—how cotton became ...

The cotton harvest in Marana must go on, whether or not any gins are nearby. This year the management of the Trico Gin, 15315 W. Silverbell Road — Marana's last operating cotton gin ...

“We’re preserving the stories that happened all over Texas and the world really,” says Stephanie Jarvis of Burton, population 300 near Brenham. She curates the Cotton Gin Museum, one of the small town ...

Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

McClendon Mann & Felton Gin Company in Marianna, AR, has been honored for achieving the highest output of any cotton gin in the United States in 2024.

LUBBOCK, Texas – Cotton ginners have been working through the off-season to make sure they’re ready to get the cotton rolling. Jerry Butman, the general manager for Lubbock Cotton Growers ...

Burton will celebrate the history of the oldest operating cotton gin in America tomorrow (Saturday) at the 36 th Annual Burton Cotton Gin Festival. A full day of events on the grounds of the Cotton ...

The 36 th Annual Burton Cotton Gin Festival is coming up later this month. The Cotton Gin Festival is going to be held on Saturday, April 26, from 10am-6pm at the Texas Cotton Gin Museum in Burton.