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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 ...
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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 cotton gin transformed Southern agriculture and the national economy. [11] Southern cotton found ready markets in Europe and in the burgeoning textile mills of New England. Cotton exports from the U.S. boomed after the cotton gin's appearance – from less than 500,000 pounds (230,000 kg) in 1793 to 93 million pounds (42,000,000 kg) by 1810 ...
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.
A post office was established at Brazos Point in 1873 and remained in operation until 1896. The community was also home to Brazos Point Community Church. It had a steam-powered cotton gin, a gristmill, a general store, and a physician supporting 200 residents in the mid-1880s. It plunged to 75 in 1896 and moved to Farm to Market Road 56 for ...