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

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

FORNEY, Texas — The owner of a picturesque cotton gin in the Historic Downtown District of Forney is facing a property tax nightmare as the town's mayor wages a legal war against the Kaufman County ...

Future generations will be able to see what sustained families and the economy in times past. A huge cotton gin is being donated by a private collector to the Depot Museum on High Street in Henderson.

It's an interesting partnership - a retired dairy farmer and a former car salesman. The resulting new business is now the latest antique store to come on the scene in Ringgold, sitting directly across ...

In pre-Civil War Tennessee and Alabama, slaves used wooden ginning machines to turn cotton into clothing, according to Tony Mullins of Louisiana, who collects the devices shown in the accompanying ...

L’Rain, Jlin, Kelsey Lu, Jason Moran, and more join the sculptor and sound artist for a meditation on the complex histories evoked by the antique cotton gin at the center of his 2018 Whitney Museum ...

When Ringgold, Georgia, carpenter Danny Brown makes a table at his store, Cotton Gin Antiques, he isn't looking for lumber that's been freshly cut. He only uses wood that has outlived its original ...

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with setting a fire at the Cumming Country Fair & Festival that destroyed a building and most of the antique cotton gin it housed. Oct. 9, 2003 A 15-year-old boy has ...