This famous invention has a complex history. Eli Whitney had just graduated from Yale University in 1792, when he accepted a ...

The way cotton is harvested now, you can leave it on the side of a field for five or six months and it's still good to gin." He has eight employees at the gin who work from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. seven ...

In 1793, Eli Whitney came up with the idea for a machine that would separate the sticky green seeds from the fluffy white ...

There’s a new sign on the cotton gin located just south of Kingstree. Humphrey Coker Seed Company owners D. Brown and Keith Gill purchased the Tri-Cotton and Gin facility in April and have been busy ...

The Lubbock County Historical Commission will dedicate a Texas Historical Marker on Oct. 5 to recognize Lubbock's first cotton gin. Lubbock's first cotton gin opened in 1904, three years after W.P.