This famous invention has a complex history. Eli Whitney had just graduated from Yale University in 1792, when he accepted a ...

In 1793, Eli Whitney came up with the idea for a machine that would separate the sticky green seeds from the fluffy white ...

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 ...

ISLE OF WIGHT — Dust flies outside Windsor’s Commonwealth Gin on a nippy October morning, as Isle of Wight County’s cotton harvest begins what’s likely to be a global journey that transforms locally ...

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 ...

DOERUN, GA (WALB) - Southwest Georgia’s rich farmlands have been hit hard by Hurricane Michael. Millions of dollars expected to be lost in the cotton industry alone. Click this link to see how many ...

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 — announced the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (TB&P) — It has been 60 years since cotton was ginned in White County. That will change this fall. A new cotton gin has broken ground outside of Griffithville. The gin will employ at ...

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 April and have been busy ...

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