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Robert Sylvester Munger (July 24, 1854 – April 20, 1923) and his wife Mary Collett Munger (1857–1924) invented the "system cotton gin". After that achievement, Munger started and ran some of the largest gin manufacturing companies in the United States. He also developed real estate in Dallas, Texas.
In 1888, the Maxwell post office was founded. Between 1890 and 1892, the town's population rose from 25 to 100, and it added two general stores, a gristmill, and a gin. Maxwell came dangerously close to being destroyed by fire three times: in 1887, in 1910 (when the town rebuilt its commercial district in brick), and in 1922.
A historic cotton gin there, the Five Points Cotton Gin, was the filming location of at least two scenes in the 1984 Sally Field drama movie Places in the Heart. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On May 3, 2021 , a strong EF2 tornado struck the town, causing major roof damage to a home, lesser damage to several other homes, destroying outbuildings, overturning a ...
In 1908, Henry Kellerman, J. H. Barbee, A. H. Fleming, I. B. Rylander, and J. H. Williams acquired the premises of 120 Grove Street. [3] They then established in 1909 the Farmers Union Gin Company under the leadership of Oscar Calvin Smith Sr. (b. 1876 d. 1948, Texas Cotton Ginners Association organizer and director, San Marcos city commissioner 1924–1941 and mayor 1941–1942), an ...
Robert S. Munger built his first cotton-gin factory, the Continental Gin Company, in a series of brick warehouses along Elm Street and Trunk Avenue in Deep Ellum in 1888. As the business grew to become the largest manufacturer of cotton-processing equipment in the United States, Munger expanded the factory by adding additional structures along ...
The Burton Farmers Gin is a 2- and 3-story cotton gin house located close to the commercial district of Burton, Texas. It has also been known as Burton Farmers Gin Association's Site No. 3. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] It hosts the Texas Cotton Gin Museum. Besides the gin, the museum includes cotton ...
Its origins began in 1846 when Ludwig Von Neuhaus came from Germany to settle in Texas. He arrived at the midway point on the train from Houston and San Antonio. The town was named for a grove of nearby hackberry trees. Neuhaus farmed the property for several years and in 1853 opened esteem sawmill-gristmill. He added a cotton gin several years ...
Before the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton production was limited to coastal plain areas of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, [1] and, on a smaller scale, along the lower Mississippi River. [2] The cotton gin allowed profitable processing of short-staple cotton, which could be grown in the upland regions of the Deep South.