LA GRANGE — The Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives invites you to an evening focused on the cotton stories and history of the Fayette and Washington counties.
Steph Jarvis, director of the Texas Cotton Gin Museum, will share the history of the Burton Farmers Gin and talk about their exciting project to map local cotton gins. Come be part of this important effort to preserve the cotton history that is woven into our community.
The 1890 United States Agricultural Census recorded Fayette County as the fourth largest cotton producer in Texas, with 88,208 acres of cotton. Along with all that cotton, cotton gins were built every 5 to 8 miles apart, keeping farmers from having to travel too far to gin their cotton.
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