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 ...

It’s a far cry from a farmer towing a 15-foot wagon of hand-picked cotton behind a tractor, but Mike Bowen’s cotton gin in Randolph preserves a piece of the local historical landscape while making it ...

PRATTVILLE — A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students and staff ...

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 ...