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The World Cotton Centennial (also known as the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition) was a World's Fair held in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in 1884. At a time when nearly one third of all cotton produced in the United States was handled in New Orleans and the city was home to the New Orleans Cotton Exchange , the idea ...
1884 – Durban, South Africa – Natal Agricultural, Horticultural, Industrial and Art Exhibition [60] 1884 – New Orleans, Louisiana, United States – World Cotton Centennial [13] 1884 – Melbourne, Victoria [30] – Victorian International Exhibition 1884 of Wine, Fruit, Grain & other products of the soil of Australasia with machinery ...
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[6] [2] The Poplar Grove Plantation manor house was part of the Banker's Pavilion at the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition held in Audubon Park, New Orleans. [10] [11] In 1886, the structure was purchased by Harris and moved by way of barge down the Mississippi River to Port Allen, Louisiana. [3] [12]
August 28 – The earliest known photograph of a tornado is taken by F. N. Robinson during a tornado outbreak in South Dakota. September 5 – Staten Island Academy is founded. October – International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.
The site of the World Cotton Centennial 1884 World's Fair is now Audubon Zoo and Audubon Park. The area around the Park contains a number of architecturally-significant mansions. Across Saint Charles Avenue, route of the famous St. Charles Avenue Streetcar, are Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans.
In order to stir up more publicity for the idea the National Cotton Planters Association in 1883 succeeded in having Senator Augustus Hill Garland of Arkansas introduce a bill in the US Senate to encourage the holding of a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884.
The American Exhibition of the Products, Arts and Manufactures of Foreign Nations was held in Boston in 1883 [1] [2] and 1884 [3] [2] in the Mechanics Hall. [4]It was the world's fair in America that had hosted the most foreign exhibitors at that time, including China and Japan. [5]