Boss Sellers Cotton Gin
Charlie Rivers Cotton Gin
Calvin Rivers Cotton Gin
Stroud's ABC
Later years cotton ginning scene (Photo provided by Betty Knight Baldwin)
Later years cotton picking scene (Photo provided by Betty Knight Baldwin)
James W. Jenkins: My recollection of picking and ginning cotton was with a burlap sack, by hand, hot and dirty, low wages, and little payoff. Since we lived across the street from both gins, I watched with interest during the ginning season as the beehive of activity that was associtated with the ginning process. It included mules and wagons, trucks, tractors, strong men, giant vacuums and presses, cotton lint, cotton seed, tempting play sites, and always a lurking danger of fires.