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Louisiana State Cotton Museum is located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. The area has been a center of cotton growing, and the museum exhibits the history and traditions of cotton cultivation and harvest. The main gallery has life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, and a recreated juke joint.
Lake Providence is a town in, and the parish seat of, East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. [2] The population was 5,104 at the 2000 census and declined by 21.8 percent to 3,991 in 2010.
Louisiana State Cotton Museum: Lake Providence: East Carroll: Northeast: Agriculture: website, 7-acre (28,000 m 2) museum complex includes planter's house, sharecropper's cabin, outhouse, commissary, general store, church, and museum exhibit hall Louisiana State Exhibit Museum: Shreveport: Caddo: Northwest: History: website, Louisiana history ...
East Carroll Parish (French: Paroisse de Carroll Est) is a parish located in the Mississippi Delta in northeastern Louisiana.As of 2020, its population was 7,459. [1] The parish seat is Lake Providence. [2]
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A bale of cotton on display at the Louisiana State Cotton Museum in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. A cotton bale is a standard-sized and weighted pack of compressed cotton lint after ginning. The dimensions and weight may vary with different cotton-producing countries. [1]
Had been Francis Routh's cotton plantation; and the land is now part of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [4] 82000469 Ardoyne Plantation House: November 1, 1982: Houma: Terrebonne: 80004476 Arlington Plantation: October 3, 1980: Lake Providence: East Carroll: 82000457 Arlington Plantation House: October 5, 1982: Franklin: St. Mary: 82004676 ...
The museum claims to hold the oldest compressed bale of cotton in existence in the United States. This cotton was baled about 1930. [2] A similar bale is displayed at the Louisiana Cotton Museum in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in the farm-rich delta section west of the Mississippi River in northeastern Louisiana.