Manager of Graves Gin Chase Sain said the ginning process moves quicker with a new state-of-the-art cotton gin built by Cherokee Fabrications in Salem, AL. “We clean it, remove the seeds ...

The Territory’s new cotton gin has had an immediate impact on a key regional economy, with production across its first season ...

“We jumped in and built another gin. Someone was going to [build it]. It was imminent.” Cotton is a fairly new crop in this part of the Panhandle. First built in 2006, the gin is now adding on ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...