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The Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Manufactory (Continental Eagle Corporation 1986–2012) was a cotton gin factory created by Daniel Pratt in 1854 (Present Buildings on west side of Autauga Creek), in what is now Prattville, Alabama, [1] a town named for him. The factory became the largest cotton gin machinery factory in the world and supplied cotton ...
A March 2010 photo of the surviving factory buildings at the former Pratt Gin Company in Prattville, Alabama. Daniel Pratt (July 20, 1799 – May 13, 1873) was an American industrialist who pioneered ventures that opened the door for industry in Alabama.
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine" [1] [2] —is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. [3] The separated seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil .
The man got “stuck” in a cotton gin machine in Rosebud on Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Falls County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. He died before deputies arrived. He died before ...
For a decade and a half after 1865, the end of the Civil War, a number of innovative features became widely used for ginning in the United States.They included steam power instead of animal power, an automatic feeder to assure that the gin stand ran smoothly, a condenser to make the clean cotton coming out of the gin easier to handle, and indoor presses so that cotton no longer had to be ...
One of his colleagues was Daniel Pratt, who later moved to Alabama and became an important industrial figure and the founder of Prattville, Alabama. Griswold's village, Griswoldville, was an industrial site/company town with a cotton gin plant, soap and tallow factory, candle factory, saw and grist mill, post office and non-denominational church.
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The Piazza Cotton Gin is on the Frogmore Plantation at 11656 U.S. Highway 84, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Ferriday, Louisiana in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The building containing the cotton gin press was built c.1880, while the machinery was added c.1900. [2] The gin itself is a system cotton gin, which was invented by Robert S. Munger.