La Casita is opening a new location in the Continental Gin Building this upcoming spring. Built in 1888 as the largest ...

The building will be located near The Mill ... At one time it was the largest cotton gin factory in the world. A century ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

Smith stopped along the trail near an abandoned cotton gin building. "If we'd have been here 60 years ago, you couldn't hear me talk," Smith said, because the cotton gin was so loud. The gin ...

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement. As part of the discussion, the teacher passed around a piece of raw cotton. “The lesson was upsetting to some students. This is contrary to what ...

The building will be located near The Mill ... At one time it was the largest cotton gin factory in the world. A century later that industrial heart still beat strongly, and the site built ...