LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Everyone that lives on the South Plains knows how important cotton is to our economy. Here in Lubbock, the historical commission will soon dedicate a state marker to the first ...

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 role in ...

In pre-Civil War Tennessee and Alabama, slaves used wooden ginning machines to turn cotton into clothing, according to Tony Mullins of Louisiana, who collects the devices shown in the accompanying ...

CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) — The end of summer in South Texas means just one thing to area cotton farmers -- time to clear the fields and bring in the harvest. Tractors are in motion and farmers are ...

COCHRAN, Ga. — The GBI and other agencies are investigating a death at a Cochran cotton gin. It happened Wednesday at the Cochran Oil Mill and Ginnery on Ash Street. Coroner James Mathis says a man ...