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In flat cotton-growing land along Bayou Rapides, it "is a crossroads cotton community consisting of five principal residences, a cotton gin, a store, and nine contributing quarters houses and copious outbuildings. Contributing elements range in date from 1847 to c.1930."
Calflax was established in the mid-1930s when irrigated flax and cotton fields were planted in the once-barren west San Joaquin Valley. Calflax originally had a school, store, and cotton gin. [3] In 1959, the University of California West Side Research and Extension Center was established on the site of Calflax. [4]
James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 - September 11, 1952), was the founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, known today as the world's largest privately owned farm. Primary crops include Pima cotton, [1] alfalfa hay, tomatoes, onions, and wheat, all cultivated on some 135,000 acres (550 km 2) mostly in Kings County, California.
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 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 .
Art and adventure await in one of California’s first Gold Rush towns. Though the Bay Area so often steals the NorCal spotlight, travel 150 miles inland and you’ll uncover the unique, less ...
The gin was part of the Judd Hill Plantation, which was established by businessman Orange Judd Hill in the 1920s and sold to Hill's daughter and her husband, Esther and Samuel Chapin, in 1933. The cotton gin was built on the plantation circa 1930; its brick construction, designed to prevent fires, makes it a rarity among extant cotton gins.
The owners of the California gas station who sold the fifth largest Mega Millions ticket in history on Friday were elated to learn their store had played a small part in the $1.22 billion jackpot ...