This gin was exhibited at the World's Fair, in London, where it was commended, and adopted as best calculated to promote the growth of cotton in India, Egypt, Turkey, Italy and Brazil. It was ...

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 ...

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 ...

vehicles and a mobile home is scheduled to run June 22-28, with bids accepted at the J.R. Dixon Auctions website. Kevin Campbell, a Mount Pleasant lawyer who is trustee in Rickenbaker Gin's ...

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 ...

At first glance, the loss of a cotton gin in Arkansas seems to reflect the waning number of cotton acres in any given year, but the picture is a little more complex, said Scott Stiles, extension ...

A once-abandoned cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments stands beside Autauga Creek in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The factory’s history is tied up in ...

The transatlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808 and slavery was in decline before Eli Whitney invented the labor-saving gin to separate white cotton fibers from seeds. The demand for unpaid ...