For decades, the Carver Cotton Gin Mill was at the center of economic activity in East Bridgewater, employing hundreds of people and manufacturing thousands of cotton gins each year. The mill’s ...

The Cochran Oil Mill and Ginnery runs 24 hours a day, ... The cotton gin we use today is basically the same machine Eli Whitney designed, but of course technology has taken hold, ...

Famous Mill Goes Away As King Cotton's Reign Fades After almost 150 years, the S.M. Whitney Co., run by descendants of cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney, will sell its last bale of cotton next week ...

Cotton gin (Source: WALB) ... The last time folks could see the cotton mill was in 2008. The boiler and some of the parts that help process cotton were more than 100 years old.

The history of cotton farming in the Wiregrass may have been overshadowed by the story of the boll weevil and the peanut, but cotton is still a strong part of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The former cotton gin factory in downtown Prattville is now apartments, and this month, the new complex welcomed its first residents. “The Mill at Prattville” has ...

“First cotton gin” from Harpers Weekly. 1869 illustration depicting event of some 70 years ... or 67 percent of the 422.6 million pounds of cotton used by U.S. mills in 1860.” In other ...