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2. Morris Ranch, Texas - Wikipedia

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   1341940 [2] Morris Ranch is a ghost town, located 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southwest of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The area was begun as a thoroughbred horse ranch by New Yorker Francis Morris in 1856, and the town grew up around it. In 1962, the school district was merged with Fredericksburg Independent School ...

3. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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   As cotton-producing estates grew in size, so did the number of slaveholders and the average number of enslaved people held. [42] [41] A cotton plantation normally had a cotton gin house, where the cotton gin was used to remove the seeds from raw cotton. After ginning, the cotton had to be baled before it could be warehoused and

4. Robert S. Munger - Wikipedia

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   Robert S. Munger. 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.

5. Kenmore (Fredericksburg, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   April 15, 1970 [4] Designated CP. May 16, 2002. Designated VLR. November 5, 1968 [2] Kenmore, also known as Kenmore Plantation, is a plantation house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Built in the 1770s, it was the home of Fielding and Elizabeth Washington Lewis and is the only surviving structure from the 1,300-acre (530 ...

6. Smithfield Plantation (Fredericksburg, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   Fredericksburg Country Club. /  38.26472°N 77.42694°W  / 38.26472; -77.42694. Smithfield Plantation, now known as Fredericksburg Country Club, is a historic former plantation house and estate in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, four miles south of the city of Fredericksburg. It has been a private country club since 1925.

7. Cotton gin - Wikipedia

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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. Handheld roller gins had been used in the Indian subcontinent ...