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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 ...
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 .
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.
Cotton Field: Arthur Getz: 1942 Bay Minette: Removal of the County Seat from Daphne to Bay Minette: Hilton Leech: 1939 U.S. Post Office (Montevallo), Montevallo: Early Settlers Weighing Cotton: William S. McCall: 1938 Included in University of Montevallo Historic District: 1990 CP Monroeville: Harvesting: Arthur Leroy Bairnsfather: 1939 Oneonta
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English: African Americans slaves using the First cotton-gin, 1790-1800, drawn by William L. Sheppard. Illustration in Harper's weekly, 1869 Dec. 18, p. 813. Harpers Weekly's illustration depicting event of some 70 years earlier. The illustration is of a Roller Cotton Gin and not an illustration of a Whitney Spike Gin or Holmes Saw Gin.
In the state of Texas, four small communities share the name Needmore and the high plains area of the Llano Estacado has two. Needmore (Bailey County) is located approximately 55 mi (89 km) to the northwest of Needmore (Terry County). Both are rural agricultural communities with cotton gins.