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• Little Rock Oil and Compress Company
  ...Arkansas River]]. It also operated the [[Little Rock Mill]] for processing cotton at 1000-1022 East Second Street in the city. The mill averaged 125 employee
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• Little Rock Foundry and Machine Shops
  ...foundry opened in 1866, and manufactured steam engines, boilers, sawmills, cotton gins and presses, woodworking machinery, steam pumps and pipe fittings, and
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• Quapaw Cotton Mill
  ...ills Company''' was incorporated on February 1, 1881. The company's Quapaw Cotton Mill was located at 900-922 East Second Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, in
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• Union Pacific Railroad
  ...outhern Pacific Transportation Company]] in 1996, including the historic [[Cotton Belt Route]] through the state.
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• Old Gin
  ...Gin opened in 1996 inside the building housing the long-defunct Enderlin's Cotton Gin. The [[Conway Area Chamber of Commerce]] gave the owner, [[George Edwar ...in operated by [[Henry Enderlin]] and [[Paul Enderlin]]. The final bale of cotton was ginned on site in 1972.
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• Plumerville
  *[[Rupert B. Vance]] - sociologist and author of ''Human Factors in Cotton Culture'' and ''Human Geography of the South''
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• Damascus
  ...raising cattle and corn, wheat, and oats. Later they raised cash crops of cotton or raised sheep and sold wool. ...were made using an R Press and later using a typical screw press. The last cotton gin in the area went out of business in 1948.
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• Mount Vernon
  ...nd later the owner of a local saddle shop. House received goods by trading cotton bales for finished goods in Judsonia with a team of six oxen. ...about this time. Around 1867 [[Wade Ussery]] established a steam mill and cotton gin in town. In 1877 general supplier [[Greer & Bacuum]] opened for busines
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• Enola
  ...n the town on May 19, 1879, under postmaster S. E. Lamar. That same year a cotton gin and saw mill was set up by [[John C. Bailey]]. In 1912 the [[B. F. Shoc
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• Mayflower
  ...ablished in the 1870s. The [[Wiley Mosely Store]] opened in the 1870s. Ten cotton gin owners also set up in town in this decade. A hotel, train depot, and lo ...J. F. Taylor, set up shop in 1903. Taylor invented a chain-driven dropped cotton planter and five section harrow. These inventions were sold to the Blount P
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• Warsaw
  [[James D. Wood]] once owned a general store, cotton gin, and milling operation at the intersection of Highway 107 and Republica
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• Mabelvale
  ...]. The local blacksmith was [[J. A. Ginns]]. [[Finley & White]] operated a cotton gin and grist mill, as did [[E. Lamair]] and [[Pritchard & Grogan]]. The [[
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• Lollie Plantation
  ...r]] in southwestern [[Faulkner County]], Arkansas. The three thousand acre cotton plantation was established in 1880 by one hundred African American sharecro
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• Strait & Strait
  ...ys for the [[Bank of Morrilton]], the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]], the [[Cotton Oil Company]], [[First National Bank]], the [[Morrilton Wholesale Grocery C
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• William P. Strait
  ...ys for the [[Bank of Morrilton]], the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]], the [[Cotton Oil Company]], [[First National Bank]], the [[Morrilton Wholesale Grocery C
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• Audrey Strait
  ...ys for the [[Bank of Morrilton]], the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]], the [[Cotton Oil Company]], [[First National Bank]], the [[Morrilton Wholesale Grocery C
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• Ashley Cockrill
  ...Gas & Fuel Company]], [[Arkansas Building & Loan Association]], [[Buckeye Cotton Oil Company]], and [[Fidelity & Deposit Company]]. The offices of the firm
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• Henry Marshall Armistead
  ...Gas & Fuel Company]], [[Arkansas Building & Loan Association]], [[Buckeye Cotton Oil Company]], and [[Fidelity & Deposit Company]]. The offices of the firm
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• Temple Cotton Oil Mill
  The '''Temple Cotton Oil Mill''' was located in [[North Little Rock]], Arkansas, at the corner o [[Category:Cotton]]
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• Dave Ward
  ...xas, alternately helping in his father's blacksmith shop, but also picking cotton, wildcatting, welding, and laying oil pipelines. He also worked briefly on
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• Steamboating
  ...idewheeler that could accommodate 125 passengers and two thousand bales of cotton. The ''Pat Cleburne'' was constructed in 1870.
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• Lecont
  ...grist mill and cotton gin operated under [[J. A. McCain]]. A saw mill and cotton gin operated under [[J. W. Todd]].
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• Marche
  ...around the settlement had nearly starved to death in trying to establish a cotton crop. Choinski's prediction that five hundred families, comprising thousand ...i's Grocery sold feed and flour, and occasionally loaned money to strapped cotton farmers. The community had no physician.
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• North Point
  ...agonmaker here by the name of [[Patrick Fox]]. A saw mill, grist mill, and cotton mill operated under [[C. W. Clay]]. There were two general stores, operated
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• Conway Compress Company
  ...ught fire, causing $685,896 in damage and destroying thousands of bales of cotton. [[Category:Cotton]]
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• Jacimore Building
  ...e site in 1866. The foundry manufactured steam engines, boilers, sawmills, cotton gins and presses, woodworking machinery, steam pumps and pipe fittings, and
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• Little Rock Board of Trade
  *Alphin-Lake Cotton Co. *Arkansas Cotton Oil Co.
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• Ad Hamberg
  ...with [[Max Mayer]], manager of the [[Lesser-Goldman Cotton Company|Lesser Cotton Company]], and vice president of the [[Little Rock Board of Trade]].
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• Arkansas Cotton Oil Company
  ..., and the secretary-treasurer [[Harry F. H. Eberts]]. The company operated cotton seed oil mills in [[Argenta]], Brinkley, Fort Smith, Helena, Little Rock, a The American Cotton Oil Company assumed the assets of the Arkansas Cotton Oil Company around 1916.
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• Cotton Industry
  ...made the processing of cotton fibers more economical and the processing of cotton seeds feasible. Seeds were milled to make hulls, linters, meal, and cottons ====Cotton Gins====
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• Thomas R. Chaney
  '''Thomas R. Chaney''' was the president of the [[Arkansas Cotton Oil Company]] in the late nineteenth century.
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• Abner D. Thomas
  ...resident of the [[Thomas Manufacturing Company]] (also known as the Thomas Cotton Press Works) in [[Little Rock]] in the late nineteenth century. ...ieces of labor-saving cotton handling machines, including the self-packing cotton press. He entered into business with his brother [[D. H. Thomas]] and estab
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• Cotton Patch Motel
  [[Image:Cotton-patch-motel.jpg|thumb|300px|Cotton Patch Motel in Little Rock.]] The '''Cotton Patch Motel''' stood alongside the Little Rock to Benton highway, on the ou
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• Thomas Manufacturing Company
  ...any''' (also known as the '''Thomas Cotton Press Works''') was the largest cotton press manufacturer in the world in the 1890s. [[Category:Cotton]]
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• Conway Cotton Oil Company
  The '''Conway Cotton Oil Company''' was located at 1502 Mill Street in [[Conway]], Arkansas. The [[Category:Cotton]]
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• Steamboat Pat Cleburne
  ...nd 33 feet wide, could accommodate 124 passengers or two thousand bales of cotton. The ''Pat Cleburne'' moved from the White to the Arkansas River in 1871, a
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• Great Flood of 1927
  ...s covered Arkansas City three times between April and July, destroying the cotton crop and forcing residents to paddle boats to church. Floodwaters did not f
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• Agriculture
  [[Image:Alexander-plantation.jpg|thumb|300px|Cotton pickers on the Alexander Plantation in Pulaski County, Arkansas, in 1933.]] Crops of the 1880s consisted of cotton, buckwheat, beans, peas, grasses, fruit, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, tobacc
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• Great Depression
  ...and in their anger at the president spoke of rabbits as "Hoover hogs." The cotton crop for the year dwindled from 1.4 million bales in 1929 to only 879,000 i
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• Robert H. "Bunny" Adcock Jr.
  ...nt Finance Authority]], and as the state's bank commissioner. He is also a cotton farmer and very involved in the [[Arkansas Jaycees]].
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• Lesser-Goldman Cotton Company
  ...of banker [[Julius Lesser]] of Marianna, pioneered the bidding system for cotton in 1892 by sending buying agents out into the local planter's markets, who [[Category:Cotton]]
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• Ed Ward
  ...side of Cave City, Ark. There his parents worked picking cotton. Sometimes cotton didn’t cut it so his father had to set up a still to feed the eight child
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• Carry Nation
  In 1874 she married David A. Nation. The couple bought a cotton plantation ion the San Bernard River in Texas, but failed at farming. They
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