Big Tin Cotton Gin is at risk of closing to make way for a QT gas station. Nothing is set in stone yet as a historical designation could still be filed. If the property does close down ...

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 ...

The historic Daniel Pratt cotton gin and property in downtown Prattville is set to be auctioned off at the Autauga County Courthouse Dec. 29 according to a legal advertisement in Saturday's ...

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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 ...