Cotton Gin Port is a ghost town in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. Cotton Gin Port was located at 33°58′15″N 88°32′35″W / 33.97083°N 88.54306°W...

River and the town of Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi. Afterwards, he took a leave of absence from the army to practice law in Mississippi Territory. While practicing...

by the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad. As a result, Cotton Gin Port, along the Tombigbee River to the east, was abandoned as businesses...

in the Mississippi Territory. It was constructed in 1811 and 1812 from the Tennessee River (opposite the Elk River's mouth) to Cotton Gin Port on the...

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bluff west of the Chickasaw trading post known as Cotton Gin Port, established near the old cotton gin. The post was marked by a large spreading oak known...

dual-roller gins appeared in India and China. The Indian version of the dual-roller gin was prevalent throughout the Mediterranean cotton trade by the...

Peru. Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and...

She was married to James Gunn. Robert Gordon had immigrated to Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi, from Scotland. The Gordons of Lochinvar were an old Scottish...

them to serve as laborers to develop cotton plantations along major riverfronts. On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became a state of the United States...

ghost town. Businesses in the county seat of Port Gibson, which served the area, included a cotton gin and a cottonseed oil mill (which continued into...

Mississippi. Rush Nutt, a resident of Rodney, developed an important hybrid strain of cotton called Petit Gulf cotton and innovations to the cotton gin...

America. The invention of the cotton gin in the late 18th century made profitable the cultivation of short-staple cotton. This type could not be grown...

green seeded cotton was not a commercially important crop until the invention of an improved cotton gin in 1793. With an inexpensive cotton gin a man could...

trade was strongly influenced by the invention of the cotton gin, which made short-staple cotton profitable for cultivation across large swathes of the...

Gibson, Mississippi). It became a center of wealth in the antebellum years, as a trading center for slaves and cotton, and the center of cotton culture...

textile manufacturing to the United States, Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont's improvements in chemistry and gunpowder making...

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Judge Bruin's place was a mile and a quarter below Bayou Pierre and had a cotton gin. "...we rowed into the mouth of Bayau Pierre, up which we advanced a quarter...

major shipping ports, deriving substantial economic benefit from cotton raised throughout the South. The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth...

located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad and was once home to a drug store, grist mill, cotton gin, saloon, hotel, and multiple general...

river port and the county seat of Desha County, Arkansas, from 1838 to 1874. It was located at the confluence of the Arkansas and the Mississippi rivers...

stand at the now-extinct riverfront settlement of Bruinsburg, Mississippi, not far from Port Gibson, at the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace. His customers...

students. Agriculture consisted of watermelons, cotton and timber. The settlement had a sawmill, three cotton gins, and a brick plant. The population in 1907...

invention of the cotton gin enabled the expansion of cultivation in the uplands of short-staple cotton, leading to clearing lands cultivating cotton through large...

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...

of Mississippi and Louisiana, where they grew large commodity crops of cotton and sugarcane using slave labor. Natchez became the principal port from...

processing raw goods easier, and after the invention of the cotton gin, exporting cotton became a particularly lucrative enterprise. The 1803 Louisiana...

merchant in Mississippi. Hunt and Smith charged a ten percent commission to planters for processing their cotton at his public cotton gins. Additionally...

Pennsylvania Gaines Trace in the Mississippi Territory from near Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River to Cotton Gin Port on the upper Tombigbee River and...